“You have brought the vermin into my prison from your filthy homes,” he sneered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was the one who could have done five years in a federal prison, not the raven. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Maverick said it only leads to two things, the grave or prison, and I ain’t trying to see either.’ The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Later he went to prison on an obscenity conviction for publishing a magazine called Eros. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had been brought into the underground prison at about the same time as Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to count how many hours we had spent in the prison box, and wondered how many more we had to go. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What happened in my prison cell was freedom of my soul. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In a way that even the authorities acknowledged, order in prison was preserved not by the warders but by ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Woodrow Wilson sent a representative to the prison to find out what was happening. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“She said she met a Latvian woman whose husband is in a prison near Tomsk,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Wes’s best friend, Woody, spent many of his years after high school going in and out of prison. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I met Lord Bethell in the prison commander’s office, which was dominated by a large photograph of a glowering President Botha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the photos were taken on the day he was released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had to use the toilet in open stalls in front of male prison guards. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The York Times published regular updates on Alice Paul’s condition, as well as the full text of a statement from her that had been smuggled out of the prison. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It involved bribes, copies of keys, and even a false beard that was to be sewn into the shoulder pad of one of my jackets brought to me in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty used to it now, but prison walls sure have a way of being intimidating. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Maze prison's in Northern Ireland where Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strikers died by degrees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After I left the prison, I’d fetch the water and head back to Wall Street, passing by the Golden Hill Tavern in case Captain Morse needed me, which he never, ever did. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon was growing restless in its prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One after the other the men in prison clothes were escorted into court, then returned to the cell. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were a wild and homeless lot, culturally lost, spiritually disinherited, candidates for the clinics, morgues, prisons, reformatories, and the electric chair of the state’s death house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The starting point in prison, however, was stress, much of it born of hostility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was imprisoned in Florida, but his sentence was commuted by President Johnson, partly for assistance during an outbreak of illness in the prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man was his son, whom Mr. Eng had not seen since his arrest, and who now was in prison himself for armed robbery. ‘It was the worst moment of my life,’ Mr. Eng recalled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a rude shock for Theo, Vincent tells him, to be on his own; it would be disorienting, like leaving a prison after years of captivity. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Amma tells how, on the night of Lord Krishna's birth, the guards fell asleep, and the prison doors magically swung open. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Coven cornered them and used the Star to lock them forever in a grove of trees, a living, growing prison, the only place powerful enough to bind such creatures. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was uncertain, and hesitant—but at least I had debated in prison, and I tried my best. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shoot up the grandpa zombie—and wake up the entire prison and walking dead. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

WORLD, who lives in a prison of words. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d also known of at least another dozen showdowns in which one took the Dead On Arrival ride to the morgue, and the other went to prison for manslaughter or the electric chair for murder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only know that, all of a sudden, I no longer smell the damp and urine of the prison yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"He testified in a number of court cases which resulted in convictions of saboteurs and espionage agents practically on his testimony alone," the prison warden wrote. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The moment my foot hits the smooth black floor of the prison, the inside of Moreau’s glass cell transforms into a scene of a fancy party full of people celebrating. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But months later, when I had become a civilian and Delacruz had become an inmate at a medium-security prison, I wrote him a letter, with my post office box as a return address. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the people in state prisons are classified as violent offenders, but that statistic can easily be misinterpreted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave or a black person living “free” in Mississippi at the height of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow knew that the phone companies whacked a three-dollar surcharge on every call made from a prison phone. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was going to be put in prison now, or an orphanage, he was sure of it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“If they get me for this, I’m going to prison! I can’t go to prison!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After we were arrested in December and kept in prison for two weeks, I had one visit from Evelyn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before I went to prison I never held such a press conference as I did that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who do go to prison find little freedom upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In prison, having an oudet for one’s frustrations was absolutely essential. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 5 men from the prison bus worked silently and willingly alongside us, anxious to help. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The same memories I have of my father in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In place of the atmosphere of malicious gossip, perversion, grafting, hateful guards, there was more relative “culture,” as “culture” is interpreted in prisons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got up, drew the grey elven-cloak about him, and to keep his mind occupied, began to walk to and fro, prying and peering into every corner of his prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Our prison cells are only hotel bedrooms, but we are guarded like royalty. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No one could be put in prison; prisoners were even released so that they could share in the general rejoicing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, Blake kept watch for weaknesses in the prison's perimeter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cyril, whom I met only upon my release from prison, was a worthy successor to a long line of notable ANC leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late. If the guards think there’s a prison break in progress, the checkpoints will be on high alert. They’re not going to let anyone just walk through.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It showed how many people the Innocence Project helped get out of prison, which was in the hundreds. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, Nana said, he sounded like a warden bragging about the clean walls and shiny floors of his prison. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was hard to fall asleep, but when I finally did, I dreamed of a prison. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, if they were tried in a civilian court, the men would most likely receive a two-year prison term for conspiracy, since they didn't commit any sabotage. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I still think about that now, eating off the metal trays in the prison cafeteria. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So feel I. Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, since I had become a Muslim, I had grown a beard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young black men in California are now five times as likely to go to prison as to a state university. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison and then reduced to fourteen years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And what are they going to do, shoot all the prison guards? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he knew that his very presence in a maximum-security prison likely proved his guilt in the minds of all who worked at the facility. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His life is as dark as an unlit coal mine; he’s trapped in the prison of his own fear, anger, agony, despair. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had always thought that someday when I left prison I would be able to recapture the past when looking over those pictures and letters, and now they were gone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a big financial guy recently sent to prison for what the news sites called “the D and G trading scandal.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a sound exactly recalling the guards in prison running their nightsticks against the bars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of its unintended results is the growth of so-called prison culture. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name Marcus Johnson was written in that same blue handwriting above the prison’s name. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He said how “strong” I had been while in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the prison, the soldiers were stern and intimidating. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the day the first prison opened, people of color have been disproportionately represented behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They each served prison terms of various lengths. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote a letter to Ray Black in prison, but I never got a response. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The perfect prison door. Only water magic can get past it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The corpses are buried in the prison yard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were barred and narrow, which gave the prison building the appearance of being much taller than it actually was. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Council of Elders languished in prison, and new council members were elected by popular vote. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

What do you do with all these millions of people that have been in prison and been released? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another thing it did was stop on sidings near prisons, leaving a few cars there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spent twenty-seven years in a South African prison. Twenty-seven years, Noah! A couple of weeks won’t hurt me.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As a rule, we objected to having our pictures taken in prison on the grounds that it is generally demeaning to be seen as a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was issued the standard prison uniform for Africans: a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals, and a cloth cap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even under the best of circumstances, building a prison like this would have taken four or five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The door of my prison is open and I’m too scared to leave. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One learns in prison that it is better to fight for general principles than to battle each individual case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver and I had both been in prison, and our caseload had mounted in the meantime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they made me get up, and took me off one way and him another, I going to prison and he into the dark. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask him if he got to watch any basketball in prison, but then I heard shouting in the background. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

About a month after the hearing, before judgment was rendered, I decided to go to the prison and see Avery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The judge sent him to California's dangerous, overcrowded adult prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a fact—we had all compared notes—that our men got more romantic the longer they were in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes it sound like I’m going to prison. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

What happens in the holding cell is you’re mixed in with the people who’ve been in prison awaiting trial for weeks and months. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And so prison day number 264 passes slowly, the same as every other Tuesday, until five minutes past one o'clock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Larson asked whether I didn’t think it was wrong when companies had something to gain by seeing people sentenced to prison—in other words, when they had a stake in their failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison every year, only to find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He worked for an organization called the Innocence Project, which he explained helped innocent people get out of prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A man’s home might be his castle, but the four fences of that yard became my mother’s prison. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The purpose of the experiment was to try to find out why prisons are such nasty places. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small cages were piled on top of each other, and the large cages looked like human prisons, and all of the cages were empty. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The prison rules are that visitors must be listed on the inmate’s permission list. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They had the ability as a people not only to offer him asylum, but to secure it and extricate him from prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did Janice feel persecuted inside prison because of who he was? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for breaking them was five years in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The heavy prison door swung back slowly and Milo and Tock followed Officer Shrift down a long dark corridor lit by only an occasional flickering candle. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these wardresses had no idea why we were in prison, and gradually began to discover what we were fighting for and why we were willing to risk jail in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a good job, and it allowed me to see the results of all the rough action in the prison, without having to be directly involved. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I began to understand Lionel Trilling’s remark that culture—learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions—is a prison. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote these stories down in my prison journal, and it gave me a lot of pleasure to recall my childhood. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

One morning, a few weeks later, the chief warder, instead of handing us hammers for our work in the courtyard, gave us each needles and thread and a pile of worn prison jerseys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then, Master Elrond, you will have to lock me in prison, or send me home tied in a sack,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man is taken away from his experience of society, taken away from the experience of a living planet of living things, when he is sent to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting someone who has not yet been tried in a prison reserved for convicted felons is almost never done. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Does he know my brother was taken to prison for spying on his shop? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Minnie hadn't been to the prison in several months and seemed grateful that I had spent some time there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From Rikers Island, my uncle is sent to a prison upstate we can visit. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sloping walls of her prison were a canvas for her morbid inquiries, particularly between sundown and Martin’s late-night visit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Five years later, Ames gave a prison interview that offered a glimpse into his motivations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

More than 650,000 people are released from prison each year, and for many, finding a new home appears next to impossible, not just in the short term, but for the rest of their lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He refused to explain why he was locked up in the camp’s underground prison, but he did say he had been there for many years and that he sorely missed the sun. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Its isolation made it not simply another prison, but a world of its own, far removed from the one we had come from. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted the faces of school board members peering out the windows of the building, then he put bars on the windows and turned the building into a prison. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere in prison was bright with hope. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, one can only question and resist an order to a certain point, then one must succumb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every part of me, every fiber and every nerve, is straining toward freedom, not just from this cell but from the prison of the city beyond it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He and Prokofiev were both mercifully spared the treatment accorded writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose criticisms of Soviet authority in his books and public statements landed him in a Siberian prison camp. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In prison he said he had embraced the teachings of Jesus Christ and was a better man for it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The warder was taken aback by my request and was unable to offer any explanation or produce anything in writing from the commissioner of prisons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason the clothing here surprised Thomas; it seemed like everyone should be wearing something more menacing—like prison garb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She remembered what Sparrow had said, how dreaming was like the garden: You could step out of prison for a little while and feel the sky around you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, he is in a prison of his own creation, sworn to babysit these turkeys until the pardoning ceremony, and is just now realizing his deep-seated fear of large birds. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of Wylan’s plans showed the Ice Court from above, but the prison elevation was a side view, a cross section showing the building’s floors stacked on top of one another. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t possibly be innocent if he’d been in prison my whole life. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The more I leave behind, the more there is for you to take to the prison.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards pushed him inside and tossed him a prison uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As it had happened with me, when they left prison, they entered a Temple fully qualified to become registered Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They followed a row of torches up an uneven path to the leeward side of the prison. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We got things resolved so that the Court could grant our motion and resentence Mr. Caston so that he would immediately be released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His was considered a modern, enlightened prison, despite its Victorian chill. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of Marcus sitting alone in his prison cell at the end of a long hallway. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once this is understood, the disagreeable behavior of American enlisted men in German prisons ceases to be a mystery. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not meant to be fun. That’s why it’s prison. Think he enjoys it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I had come to prison with 20/20 vision. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I heard something scary happening in the prison in the background? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

To confess that I didn’t feel the same as before prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked for a few more minutes, and I asked him if he ever got to watch basketball in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doha, I don’t know if the prison guards will let you bring this to Sunjin and his mother,” she said with a worried frown. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Later in life I learned that the way many governors projected the numbers of beds they’d need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third graders. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The yellow prison building was like a fort, as large and strong as in the days when it was used by the American marines who had built it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Leonard is innocent, but because of the way he was raised, he is going to stay in prison for the rest of his life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I suppose love, which makes atoms sticky, is also in many ways a prison. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even before meeting Mr. Bush, I had formed a positive impression of him, for he was the first world leader to telephone me with congratulations after I left prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s stuck in a cellblock, lost in the labyrinth of Serra’s prisons. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The prison is like those indoor exhibits at the zoo, with long walls of glass cages, only a thousand times scarier. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The people had the glazed, beaten look you only see in airports and prisons. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Spud, running a thick hand through thinning hair, “but a second offense is federal prison, and that’s a long stay. Let’s go.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If they both confess, they can both expect to spend three years in prison. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to break out of my prison tonight. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Age was banned at the end of 1962, and possession of a banned publication became a criminal offense, punishable by up to two years in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Germany, 93 people are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the United States—children who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or other extreme sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He followed Kaz to the lip of the roof where Inej had secured a tether that ran from the top of the prison to the embassy sector roof below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Bolivian military aided the incursion by hunting down the Siriono and throwing them into what were, in effect, prison camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The eastern sky had brightened enough for me to see all around, but the inside of the prison was dark. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the most serious prison of all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now, at that time—April, i960—there were in United States prisons one hundred and ninety persons awaiting civil execution; five, the Clutter killers included, were among the lodgers at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to surmount these obstacles, most will eventually return to prison and then be released again, caught in a closed circuit of perpetual marginality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We did not know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road led to prison and which to the crematoria. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told everyone that Bernard and I had to take Walter to the prison and that we would come to the house directly from there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was low on sleep and exhausted after the excitement of the prison break, and now his thoughts were buzzing and jumping at the possibility of thirty million kruge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then they all got to yelling about foreigners, the army takeover, and somebody thrown in prison which if you ask me is at least a more favorable subject than rats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cringed at what his father would say if he learned his son had died in a Fjerdan prison. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"He took life very easily, it seemed to me; probably after being in prison for so long he didn't take it as seriously as someone else might have done." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz gave a nod to the prison wagon, now rumbling its way up the road toward the Ice Court and the second checkpoint. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Others are released again, only to find themselves in precisely the circumstances they occupied before, unable to cope with the stigma of the prison label and their permanent pariah status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a hardship station not only for the prisoners but for the prison staff. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tartarus and Erebus are sometimes two divisions of the underworld, Tartarus the deeper of the two, the prison of the Sons of Earth; Erebus where the dead pass as soon as they die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most embarrassing part, she admitted, was that this made her start feeling that way right there in the middle of the prison hall surrounded by guards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cast a glance at the prison guard standing by the archway. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Many adults convicted of attempted murder in Florida serve less than ten years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But we differed markedly about the principal subject at hand: prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now know why he might wish to offer his protection, and at the same time, revel in the look aghast in those wide eyes as the full dimensions of their prison are revealed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

From the prison’s courtyard it rose, a yellow silk bubble escaping the earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in there for only an hour before I was called up to court, where a judge would either let me go or send me to prison to await trial. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I think that most prison time for drug possession does more harm—to families as well as to offenders—than good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the reforms of the 1970s and early 1980s, inmate death in jails and prisons was still a serious problem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterward, we agreed among ourselves not to discuss politics with the prison board. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no prospect about prison which pleases — with the possible exception of one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Livingston Middle School is a big, boxy red building that looks like a prison. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Where were the protestors and civil rights leaders when their children were tried as adults and carted off to adult prisons? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As for Father Michael Antoniou, he was later convicted of attempted grand larceny and served two years in prison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What’s happening to my brother in prison while I stand in this joyful crowd? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

New York’s prison system in the early twentieth century, to his concerned eyes, was in need of complete overhaul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laika followed along, enthusiastic about the mission to explore the abandoned prison. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere the train stopped—Charleston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and many other places, ending in New York—enormous rallies were held, featuring speeches by veteran suffragist activists, each one dressed in prison garb. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Some radical group was holding a community meeting about police brutality, the new three strikes law in California, and the expansion of America’s prison system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes, Mrs. Suzman — all five feet two inches of her — came through the door of our passageway, accompanied by General Steyn, the commissioner of prisons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His prison uniform felt the same—stiff against my cheek, familiar as daylight. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And when they are released from prison, they rarely find themselves in the ghetto. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I started to detail the problems with our cells, he interjected that the conditions in backward American prisons were far worse than Robben Island, which was a paradise by comparison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York and California are just beginning to give first-time drug offenders treatment instead of prison sentences, and that’s a positive development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida had the largest population in the world of children condemned to die in prison for non-homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The center had all of the trappings of a high-security prison, and its inmates were incarcerated there for relatively long periods. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

During his time in the underground prison, guards told Shin’s father that his youngest son had informed them of the escape plan. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She got out of prison a few weeks ago. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A relatively large number of officers—eight to a dozen—were assigned to each meal because of the prison mess hall’s well-known reputation as a place where in-mates can “go off.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth morning we were handcuffed and taken in a covered truck to a prison within a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Priests who criticized the Nazi Party were sent to prison or concentration camps or were murdered outright. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And notice I said ‘correction officers,’ not prison guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the prison, this part of the Ice Court wasn’t intended for public eyes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

From the prison yard, the tramp of feet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Zoe, I don’t know where you got this information, but Marcus is not innocent of murder. He’s in prison right now because he’s guilty.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thinking her rich, I proposed to my mother that we move in with her until my father’s return from prison. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I moved to Calypso,” Diego said, “I spent one year, ten months, and twenty-three days in prison.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was no way to come out of this prison improved. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The prison psychologist interviewed me and he got called every filthy name I could think of, and the prison chaplain got called worse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other commentators liken the prison label to “the mark of Cain” and characterize the perpetual nature of the sanction as “internal exile.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There should have been a quarter moon, for what that’s worth, but the sky was overcast, and we were blind until the prison bus turned up with its headlights blazing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When I knocked on the guardhouse door of the prison, it was opened by a soldier I’d never seen before, a short man with black hair, sky blue eyes, and a scowl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw diagrams of the arcs a ball might take from inside the prison wall to the free space outside. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mate had not been separated from her baby overnight since we’d come home from prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, when they mowed the relatively short stretch alongside the south wall of the prison, the regular officer didn’t object if those in the lead went ahead and kept on mowing around the corner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the government did not unban the ANC, as soon as I was out of prison I would be working for an illegal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had been trying not to dwell on the likely consequences of what he was doing, but was tormented by the image of his children coming to visit him in prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Many men in prison were able to handle anything the authorities did to them, but the thought of the state doing the same thing to their families was almost impossible to bear. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did, too, because I didn’t feel as much in prison myself here, and I got to witness positive interactions instead of the customary conflictual ones. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled by the light of ten thousand after noons; a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifers in an ornate prison. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The cubs were afraid and huddled down in the farthest corner of their prison. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

That between the lines of new, free thoughts were compressed the secret memories of my days in prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how long the other men had spent in prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was like I was talking through glass to some sort of prison inmate. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jason tried to grasp him in both arms, trying to prison the puny fury of him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a visitation log that the prison used for family visits, but it was not used for legal visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lady Athena shall personally check on the other Titans to make sure they do not escape their various prisons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his thumb over the bright-blue ink of his prison mark, as if that could make it disappear. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Into her head came lines from an old poem: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down a dogleg corridor from the SHU was the State Shop, where inmates on their way in or out of the prison were processed and given clothes and bedding. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing Shin curled up on the floor of his cell, a guard shouted in the prison hallway, “That little runt is really tough.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad sends money all over the country to prison inmates who write to him, probably to this day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He died because of what he went through in prison. You should know. He was trying to keep you out of trouble!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four other officers were overpowered as well, and thirty-two SHU inmates, the worst men in the prison, were soon out of their cells, terrifying their captives and destroying the Box’s control center. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Alfhercht wanted was to take his brother out of the prison and go home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He told us Johnny cut our picture out of the newspaper and has it hang ing over his bed in the prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or rather, every piece of machinery—the police, the military, the prisons—that was meant to protect people like him was devouring anyone who got close. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But consensual sex is something that the authors of most novels and scripts about prison can’t seem to acknowledge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We should work hard to improve the prisons in our society—take up the unfinished work of Thomas Mott Osborne and transform these scrap heaps into repair shops, to paraphrase the great reformer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not just my prison, Grandmother. It is my home. And you are the trespasser.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The chief conspirators—including the leader, Bert Morrison—went to prison. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The prison guards and Kidnapping Clubbers had seen what happened to their leader and fled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Pong nodded to the building that used to be the prison guards' quarters. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Plus, there was a different prison where her father had been held for almost a year. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They wanted the prison yard clean and it was untidy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the far side of the prison, rows of windows were stacked three stories high in straight floors, forty-five cells to each side of a tier. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

What were you supposed to do—shut down your brain when you walked into the prison or drink extra coffee and prepare to go into overdrive? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove through the complex until they arrived at the main offices at the front of the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He took up the reins when most of its leaders were either in prison or in exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Zeitoun was transferred to a secret prison, their lives would be reversed completely: they would go from the well-off children of a successful man to the disgraced children of a presumptive sleeper-cell mastermind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To be able to see him in person whenever I wanted, and not within these prison walls. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me? Do they have prisons for kids?” he asked the men in the front seat. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

One day he asked whether I had any objection if he obtained permission from the commanding officer to be near me in the prison hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to wonder, later on, when I was in prison, what a psychiatrist would make of it all. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 5, 1930, as the sun rose over the prison dome, White went to take Panzram from his cell to the newly built gallows. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Both had spent their time in prison camp thinking of ways the Atlantic might be crossed nonstop by air. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is precisely those mundane activities of daily life that one misses most in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison continued to grow and operate around its historical core. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the prison walls, massive bombs fell on the city. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Not too bad. He was here, in Yazd. The prison was not good, but at least he was close.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Again he was in his wounded body on an island prison. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Fred and Chico danced and hopped and laughed and almost forgot about the prison bars between them. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to serve fifteen years to life in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a prison with escaped inmates. I looked it up. Lots of blood and guts.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But before the two women could take a step, a figure rose in the darkest corner of their prison, leaped toward them, and seized the first person he could lay his hands on—Meggie’s mother. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people have had years of their lives wasted in prison—years they would have been free if they had been white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was shot off my cycle and ended up in a prison hospital. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the breeze blowing through, and my privileged position firmly astride the prison wall, with both sides in plain sight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bored and much too warm, but he refused to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing him in his glass prison. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Ivanov had been at the same prison as Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was the song to the Virgin, who loved all gentle things and who had watched over him in prison. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were placed in jails or in the dreadful hulks of prison ships. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a tragic crime committed at fourteen, Trina was condemned to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, we had to create our own lives in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, it was a small, well-equipped hospital There were no torture chambers or prison cells. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Tiara grabbed the machete and started going all women’s prison movie on her hair,” Miss Ohio informed her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We’d been looking at some poetry, but had somehow drifted onto talking about soldiers in World War Two being kept in prison camps. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My classmates and I had been placed in the resource pool and worked all over the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have them yet in New York—the unions have kept them out—but many states have been tempted by the prison companies’ promises of cost savings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A decrepit footbridge takes me over the tracks of the Metro North railroad—Sing Sing may be the only prison anywhere with a commuter railroad running through it—and other officers start to appear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The board was meant to assess our behavior in terms of prison regulations, but we found that it preferred to act as a political tribunal rather than a mere evaluator of behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hearing about his cooking experience while in prison, Ariana took a chance on Marcus and gave him a job. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the countries that place some restrictions on voting in prison are in Eastern Europe, part of the former Communist bloc. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After the storm he had set up a makeshift office in Baton Rouge and was already working with prisoners brought to the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The movie reminded me once again that on the day I did walk out of prison, I did not want to appear to be a political fossil from an age long past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Syrian in an American prison in 2005—this was not to be trifled with. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dinath then left prison for the night and did not come back again until the morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had entered an underground prison inside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Jack learned that most kapos had been in German prisons before the war for such crimes as murder or theft. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked down at his left wrist, bare now of any prison mark. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

If those police officers weren’t going to jail, then it made sense that the whole prison system was messed up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Of course I had read that eventually you wind up losing track of time in prison. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The prison was on the heights above the town, and through a small window I could see the sea. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we were sitting on the beach eating our stew when Lieutenant Terblanche, who was then head of prison, made a surprise visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a delivery went wrong, a midwife might face charges for practicing medicine without a license; if things went very wrong, she could face criminal charges for manslaughter, even prison time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wore unusual prison garb: a suit and tie with an overcoat and a silk scarf. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day I woke and asked myself what I should do to avoid the possibility of going to prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It had me in a girls’ prison camp in the Florida Everglades. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papá, I know I shouldn’t say this, but I feel like I’m going crazy being cooped up all day in this tiny apartment, like I am in prison.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had warned her repeatedly that they could both be put in jail, or he could be returned to prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“At the most, thirteen. You really think I did something that would send me to prison for the rest of my life?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Our group got smaller the farther into the prison we went, with groups breaking off at the hospital building and at every side corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how in prison- escape movies they put bundled-up clothes under the blankets to make it look like there’s a person in there?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d been forty-four years old when he was put in shackles and sent to prison for his activism, and seventy-one when he was finally released in 1990. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, many families are reluctant to allow their relatives—particularly those who are recently released from prison—to stay with them, even temporarily. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bus stopped at what seemed to be the last prison block, in what was evidently the highest-security section of the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what you did or didn’t do. Either way, you have been sent to a prison. Does this seem like a vacation to you?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The prison guards grip their truncheons, pulsing pulsing pulsing. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But you know how prisons are on TV, all metal and gray and filled with angry people eating slop and sleeping on concrete slabs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The effect was as though I had just stepped out of a prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of forty-two people at the end of the Attica standoff exposed the danger of prison abuse and inhumane conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a result, people who are classified as violent offenders comprise a much larger share of the prison population than they would if they had earlier release dates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pentheus went to pursue the god’s followers among the hills where the maidens had fled when they escaped from prison. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was no jury, the judge had not permitted me to give him street clothes to wear, so Walter was wearing his prison uniform. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On our last morning in Paris, we visit the Conciergerie, an old castle that served as a prison during the Revolution. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Guys with prison tattoos tied the tree to the roof of the car, and we heaved it up the stairs ourselves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even prisons—the actual buildings—are a rare sight for many Americans, as they are often located far from population centers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even once they were released, California youths seemed unable to escape from the prisons’ grasp. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now one of the church bombers has been arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison, I thought. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the prison yard, I held the Madonna tightly against my chest, so close that I could smell my mother’s scent on the statue. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This was because his victim had been the younger brother of a leader of Sing Sing’s Latin Kings gang and the administration feared that members of the gang in prison would kill him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the repetition will make us believe this place isn’t a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He said he had deserted the army for self-imposed incarceration in “a giant, demented prison.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But I will tell you that, right there, in the prison, debating, speaking to a crowd, was as exhilarating to me as the discovery of knowledge through reading had been. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison is in a rural area northeast of Birmingham, where the Alabama terrain starts to turn rocky and mountainous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Winnie and I would be driven in a car to the front gate of the prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mazen snorts, but mention of the infamous northern prison sends a chill across my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, I wasn’t really in prison those first few days: I was sort of waiting for something to happen. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t know anything about the wizard prison, though everyone he’d ever heard speak of it did so in the same fearful tone. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now the Black Panther leader was in prison where he belonged, according to Big Ma. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said the last month of waiting for her husband to get out of prison was going to kill her if she didn’t get out of there and do something. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the rate of violent crime in the country is down 20 percent since 1991, the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother Defile who died with a bald head in a prison, because God had given her wings. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In 2012, the United States saw the first decline in its prison population in decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You know they shot her cells into murderers in prison?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at the prison, it was completely dark. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’ve received lots of letters from people in prison before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In prison, Hale was given a neurological and psychological examination. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed of my granddaughter, and when I woke to see the bars of the prison cell...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If there was ever a place more prone than a prison to having sticky atoms hanging around, I wouldn’t know what it would be,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We believed then that it was better to organize underground than to go to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked to the reporter, whose name was Mr. Newman, for about twenty minutes, and was candid about both prison and the Rivonia Trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am going to find out why my brother is in prison. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A temple which Mr. Muhammad numbered Thirteen was established there with the help of Brother Osborne, who had first heard of Islam from me in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1970s, the Attica Prison riots drew national attention to horrible prison abuses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first few years on the island were difficult times both for the organization outside and those of us in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to keep me from becoming like my brother who wound up in prison. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Were there no autopsies scheduled at the local morgue? Was the federal prison just a bit too far out of the way?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were a duke and duchess, very important and wealthy, who had been cheated out of their estate by a political enemy and thrown into prison. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, as the prison aged, newer facilities looked that much better by comparison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reasoned that the resulting chaos in TB control would reach catastrophic levels, and finally private foundations would have to step in and deal with the prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Before he was tortured, confined in the underground prison, and exposed to Uncle’s stories about the world beyond the fence, Shin had been uninterested in anything beyond his next meal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That did not give us a head start; the National Party began its campaign the day they released me from prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ride all this way, the long bus ride I took years back, to come visit me in my prison. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers toyed with the clouds and she imagined Sean striding up to her, releasing her from this horrible prison. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Time slows down in prison; the days seem endless. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wholly ignorant of prison regulations, she did not dare to give them to him under the man’s eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After he got out of prison that last time, he only dealt with clothes, not robbery or nothing like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I argue that the shame and stigma of the “prison label” are, in many respects, more damaging to the African American community than the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But life outside the prison walls wasn't much fairer than life inside it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My mood was bright as I entered the prison wearing blue jeans for the first time ever, uniforms on hangers slung over my shoulder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the time I entered prison until I married, about twelve years later, because of Mr. Muhammad’s influence upon me, I had never touched a woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison guards are no better than Nazis. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By March 1997, about four months after his release from the underground prison, starvation had become a real possibility for Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Review in the Supreme Court is rare enough, but the possibility that the Court might create constitutional relief for children sentenced to die in prison made this opportunity even more thrilling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Up a set of stairs, and they were standing outside the prison warden’s office. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This was definitely a better prison, brighter, cleaner than La Victoria. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no means to pay off their “debts,” people in prisons were sold as forced laborers to lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, farms, plantations, and dozens of corporations throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I requested that the prison service supply me with sixteen 44-gallon oil drums that I had them slice in half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying, perhaps, to imitate the conditions of Julius in his prison cell. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would be carted in vans and trucks to Number Four, a notorious prison for black people in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him was a shelf of books, each with the word prison in the title; his desk was perfectly clean, empty but for a telephone and a tear-off-the-pages Far Side calendar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a prison designed by our oppressors, but it also gave us a sense of self-determination and control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The prison chaplain, he noted, “likened the warden of the establishment to a man who has tamed a tiger that one day may devour him.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he really in prison somewhere in Siberia? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If you’d ever wondered about inmates’ lives outside prison, here were some of the missing pieces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The penalty for violating that law is either ten years in prison or one Ben Starling tongue bath,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thick vines were joined to the cubs’ prison, and it was dragged onto the back of some unalive thing that nonetheless moved. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I responded that it was always unacceptable to live in degrading conditions and that political prisoners throughout history had considered it part of their duty to fight to improve prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Conover, when I came into prison the first time, I couldn’t read or write.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why aren’t you fighting harder to get out of prison? ” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

That figure, of course, does not include the thousands who avoid prison but are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to jail or probation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He explained that the screws were the prison guards. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to go until I was sure: if I ran into Rebels I’d lose the cattle and probably be put in prison myself. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After courts refused to block the Evans execution following multiple appeals, Canan went to the prison to witness the execution at Evans's request. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The stone construction of the prison helped blunt the extreme heat that had settled on the city and much of the country, but nothing could keep out the humidity for which Philadelphia was notorious. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I had not the strength, the courage, to get off my bed and shut my prison door. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were locked up in prison and on trial for our lives, but outside new life was blossoming. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I drove down the interstate to reach the prison, I noticed the long rays of sunlight retreating even as the heat of the Alabama summer persisted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prison warden reported that the three young people bore themselves with marvelous bravery. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal had never before been used as a prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I threw in the prison part to answer Vonetta’s question and for solidarity. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the prison debates I argued for the theory that King James himself was the real poet who used the nom de plume Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once released from prison, people enter a hidden underworld of legalized discrimination and permanent social exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was usually animated and excited about something, although when he didn't hear from his family for a while or had to deal with some bad incident at the prison, he would become extremely depressed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And just like that I fell into the best job in the prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But also I had been assessing myself as a prison guard and was bothered by my conclusions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can rise out of this prison hole to become a man of my own choosing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to wait three days to sneak up to the prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 17, 1926, when White was still settling into the new job, two new inmates were convoyed up the prison’s horseshoe driveway by U.S. marshals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I imagined here I was poised at the perfect doorway to break out of the prison of my father’s book. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was not a problem for us, but it proved to be one for them: the prison authorities dismissed them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another shouted order echoed off the stone front of the prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinath was wealthy and had a private payroll for the prison authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many people accused of being Reds or Communist sympathizers that the prisons had become overcrowded and they were holding people in the administrative offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As indicated earlier, any effort to downsize dramatically our nation’s prisons would inspire fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments, and other benefits provided by the current system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Except like a TV and a dad who’s not in prison.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“And what do you know about prison guards? That’s not a fair comparison.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But then I read that the year before, a record number of innocent people were freed from prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to ask why he was transferring to a prison farther from home, but did so anyway. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most people coming out of prison, a criminal conviction adds to the barriers they face upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were under the main prison now, five stories of cellblock, prisoners, and guards stacked on top of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I believe there should be a total ban on housing children under the age of eighteen with adults in jails or prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While electrician at Auburn prison, he designed both the first electric chair and testing procedures for it that involved large slabs of meat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why the State felt they needed a militia to guard the entrance to the prison on the night of an execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The crowd grew frenzied as the prison vans pulled up alongside the protesters. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Michael had been in prison for a carjacking when he was nineteen and he was fond of saying “Some black folk don’t appreciate education until after they go to prison.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My husband’s aunt says that you visit the prison at her direction, bringing tablescraps not good enough for pigs. She declared that forgiving and caring for the enemy is doing the Lord’s work.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks in prison will loosen your tongue.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His hair is uncombed, and his orange prison jumpsuit is wrinkled. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were arrested and convicted, and both were sentenced to two years in prison for violating Alabama's racial integrity laws. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In some upstate towns, the prison is the main event, visually speaking: Clinton’s imposing wall runs along Dannemora’s main street. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is now a leader in the significant Muslim community in the Jessup prison. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The one tragic note of the visit was when I learned from Winnie that Bram Fischer had died of cancer shortly after being let out of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to know was if it was really possible for an innocent person to go to prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He stepped out of his cold wet shoes and removed both pairs of prison trousers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Reginald’s letter was newsy, and also it contained this instruction: “Malcolm, don’t eat any more pork, and don’t smoke any more cigarettes. I’ll show you how to get out of prison.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fate of black men in white prisons was, of course, well known to the family, and the tenant's daughter, who was already ill, grew terrified, pleading with the policeman not to take her father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you feel bad about Father being in prison, Sam?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was that more courageous than escaping your country in a rickety boat with small children and risking being eaten by sharks or getting caught and sent to prison? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Feels like I’m entering a prison instead of my school. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whites never had to sit at the back of the bus during Jim Crow, but today a white man may find himself in prison for a drug offense, sharing a cell with a black man. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They say he killed three men before the war. The Germans put him in prison, but when the war started they made him a kapo. We've got murderers for guards.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That day, no one but Holly knew that my dad was in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She goes to prison and gives birth there right before she dies. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At 6:00 a.m., the soldiers remove my shackles and unchain me from my prison wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

During the first of his three years in prison, Perry had observed Willie-Jay from a distance, with interest but with apprehension; if one wished to be thought a tough specimen, intimacy with Willie-Jay seemed unwise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elias Motsoaledi, despite having been beaten and tortured in prison, never broke down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homicide convictions account for a tiny fraction of the growth in the prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He said that if outsiders could understand what political prison camps have done—and are doing—to children born inside the fence, it would redeem his lie and his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As a result, many fathers are in prison, and those who are “free” bear the prison label. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation’s prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and stepped into the prison. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I got my appetite back and began to regain the weight I’d lost in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built on the site of a pre-Civil War prison called Snake Hill. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But George Blake's espionage career didn't come to an end on the day he was led in shackles to Wormwood Scrubs prison, outside London. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was only then that I knew in my heart that I had left prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our second day in Pretoria, we sent a deputation to complain about the conditions to the prison’s commanding officer, Colonel Snyman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crate, which had only moments before seemed safe and warm, now closed in about them like a prison. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now, parents who prevented their children from joining the Hitler Youth were threatened with heavy prison sentences. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The colonel got wind of a prison inspector arriving.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also prison farms and stone quarries. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not only been out of touch with the situation on the ground — since 1984 I had not even been able to communicate with my colleagues in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose he was in Pharaoh’s prison this minute, or being dragged before the judges, or... The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was agreed that the prisons would get about half of the loan after all. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Lawes had started his career as a guard at Clinton prison and then returned to his hometown of Elmira, where he rose to the post of chief guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I want most is for you to live a happy life, and not have to worry about me being in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shay’s eyes narrowed, confusion clouding her face, as if her memories of the underground prison didn’t fit in with the rest of her pretty worldview. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His letters always smelled like prison—like bleached floors and the vague hint of sour milk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wrote out a Special Progress Report on my achievements in the prison, he attached a copy of the college acceptance letter, and he sent it to the parole board for consideration. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This fuzziness surrounding the rules was a strange counterpoint to the solidity of Sing Sing’s walls, the seeming immutability of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was taken to Berlin and hanged in the gallows of Plötzensee prison. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It felt like we were being led to our own prison cells. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling—nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is never easy to prepare a case from prison, and in this instance we were hampered by the customary apartheid barriers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don’t want. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sander pointed out the roofs of the queen's London residence far off to the west, and the Tower prison to the east. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

On my way out of the prison at shift’s end, I had to wait at a gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In how many ways would my authority be challenged inside the prison? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that as political prisoners we saw protest to alter prison conditions as an extension of the antiapartheid struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor brewed some coffee and gave the boys some olives while they told him what had happened since he had freed himself from their bathroom prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a better-looking pair of eyeglasses than the pair the prison had issued to me; and I bought a suitcase and a wrist watch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sued The Coca-Cola Company, claiming a bottle of soda he’d bought was filled with ground glass, though he was in a prison that only offered Pepsi products in aluminum cans. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While the old man in the underground prison had eaten well in North Korea, Park’s gustatory adventures were global. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A rat scampered around in its steel prison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That journal was the one and only thing I loved about prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

During one such game, Babe Ruth hit what has been purported to be his longest home run ever, 620 feet, over the prison wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along these same lines, I think we should take the lead of European countries in trying to blur the sharp line that exists in our prisons between guards and other employees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are the thieves, murderers, rapists, and politicians, who feed on the Sheep until they’re thrown in prison, or better yet, belly up in a landfill alongside sheaves of your grandma’s itchy hand-knit Christmas socks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It bore an uncanny resemblance to a prison: a large, bricked-in compound with walls at least twice his height. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

German prisons everywhere were absolutely full, and there was no longer any food for the prisoners to eat, and no longer any fuel to keep them warm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In March, a British court convicted Fuchs of espionage and sentenced him to fourteen years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"His conduct here under very unfavorable circumstances has been exemplary," the prison warden wrote. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

At night, our cell block seemed more like a study hall than a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it must have been stolen from a stove some-where inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course it's no game! Every day the newspaper tells us about people who are sentenced to death or prison for breaking the Radio Law when all they want is the truth. This is serious." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was finally freed; now, I hear, he is in prison for a New York City jewel robbery. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Piper anxious to reach Rome, even though she had a horrible feeling she was sailing toward her own sort of prison—a dark room filled with water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, in the 1920s, he escaped a prison camp in Siberia and made his way to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if you compare the state of America’s prisons at mid-twentieth century to their condition today, it is hard to make the case for any further progress at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and others might say it’s your duty to check that people really are Death Eaters before you chuck them in prison,” said Harry, his temper rising now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was back on R-and-W gallery, which I had learned was known as a porter gallery, because so many of its inmates worked somewhere in the prison as porters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the excitement of meeting a thinking person in prison, I liked talking with Larson because it gave me hope that the inmate-officer gap had some chance of being bridged. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This establishment, officially called the Segregation and Isolation Building, constitutes a prison inside a prison. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words were all evaporating at the time, but I was certain in my mind that ghosts had been there in the prison with us all along. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As politicians, we were just as intent on fortifying our organization in prison as we had been outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly found a door, which opened, let him reel out into the prison night. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name had special meaning for me, for during all my years in prison hope never left me — and now it never would. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jury might think they're doing you a big favor by giving you life in prison. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of prison, Ngendane had been violently opposed to the Freedom Charter, but in prison, particularly when sent to our section, Selby mellowed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The additional prison conditions litigation meant a lot of long-distance driving and extremely long hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The authorities had become more solicitous of our health, afraid that if we died in prison they would be condemned by the international community. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reasoning behind the rule is not pernicious: the lawmakers presumed that a prison visit would negatively affect the sensitive psyches of children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a prison yard selling pastries to help raise money for a little girl who had donated a kidney. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will they take their few belongings, or send my mother to prison and Prim to the community home, or kill them? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, there are more than three times the number of seriously mentally ill individuals in jail or prison than in hospitals; in some states that number is ten times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each cell had a white card posted outside of it with our name and our prison service number. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 6,1890, he entered the new AC- equipped execution chamber at Auburn prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My school building had been a former prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, convict- converts usually were better prepared than were numerous prospective Muslims who never had been inside a prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But again, who among them would believe he was one of the true innocents in the prison? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Everything so far had been prelude: From what we’d been told, you could be a star at the Academy and then fall flat on your face inside a real prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, I guess. I don’t know. Fine for prison? Looks like he’s made some friends because he had some tattoos on his knuckles.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A longer prison sentence or possibly the death sentence. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

After protracted negotiations with the prison authorities, we were permitted to have consultations under very strict conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became very bitter while I was in prison. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We headed back to the central prison office. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She explained that Hale had sent the letter from prison to a member of the tribe and that not long ago a descendant had donated it to the museum. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Back in prison, Low Key Lyesmith had once referred to the little prison cemetery out behind the infirmary as the Bone Orchard, and the image had taken root in Shadow’s mind. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He could have been murdered by one of many men he served time with in prison. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tutwiler made a list of the ten worst prisons in America compiled by Mother Jones; it was the only women’s facility to be so dishonored. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was more paranoid than usual, and in prison usual is very, and is a survival skill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

All prisoners in Chattana were tattooed with the name of their prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This was right after he got out of prison, when he didn’t have a lot of money. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Momma told her that with Daddy in prison, she couldn’t afford daycare and that Nana wouldn’t take care of me ’cause I wasn’t her baby and therefore I wasn’t her problem. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since the trip home from our last visit to the prison, we had felt his unspoken allegiance to us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, the embassies were surrounded these days, and all the recent refugees had been intercepted and put in prison where most of them had disappeared forever. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Defiance Campaign onward, going to prison became a badge of honor among Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I'd been so focused on obtaining the stay and then on what to say to Herbert when I got to the prison that I hadn't actually thought about witnessing the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We know where he is. He’s in prison. He’s okay.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With his parents gone, he wound up in a filthy orphanage, more like a prison than a home for helpless kids. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He warned him that he could not keep him in prison, “for God will set me free.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, prison construction in the United States seems to have developed an unstoppable momentum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was before she was old enough to learn that her father actually spent as little time at the prison as possible. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When a television crew thrust a long, dark, furry object at me, I recoiled slightly, wondering if it were some newfangled weapon developed while I was in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, instead of backing down, the women continued their protests in prison by starting hunger strikes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He pinned his hopes on seeing a new guard, a new employee of the prison, some visitor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But any house in which a man is free is a castle when compared to even the plushest prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, we’ve been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They knew his criminal and prison record, which he had never concealed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those left behind, especially those within prison walls, the celebration of racial triumph in America must seem a tad premature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The wife of a freedom fighter is often like a widow, even when her husband is not in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job here in prison is working in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It also offered him a chance to preside over a prison, just as his father had, although on a far larger scale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He pointed out, entirely correctly as far as I knew, that movies featuring prison guards portrayed them as cold and brutal, without exception. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the parapet above, the knuckleskull-mounted prison guards were filing in at a lopsided canter. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He made it clear that he was a doctor with a wide and prosperous practice that he would not jeopardize by going to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been tied up with rope, interrogated, and driven to this prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The challenge for every prisoner, particularly every political prisoner, is how to survive prison intact, how to emerge from prison undiminished, how to conserve and even replenish one’s beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother was arrested in the sweatshop immigration raid, a prison doctor had given her a shot of a drug to keep her calm overnight; That shot, my mother believed, caused Caroline’s condition. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Court's decision meant that no child accused of any crime could ever again be automatically sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Was Mandela the same man who went to prison twenty-seven years before, or was this a different Mandela, a reformed Mandela? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was to find, as the prophets had found, that the whole earth became a prison for him who fled before the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Legislative hearings and policy changes at the prison followed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in “disappearing” black men is surprisingly rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And prison, more than any place I’d ever been, was about rules. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though he was loath to make this leap, was it so improbable that he, like so many others, might be taken to an undisclosed location—to one of the secret prisons abroad? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Never in prison had I studied and absorbed so intensely as I did now under Mr. Muhammad’s guidance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, everyone had trooped to the courthouse to demonstrate—inside, a fellow activist named Bob Eaton was being sentenced to prison for resisting the draft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s unclear how Tate was able to persuade Holman’s warden to house two pretrial detainees on death row, although Tate knew people at the prison from his days as a probation officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had been held next door, at Hunt's sister prison for women. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shadow had promised himself a bath when he got out of prison, and Shadow kept his promises. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When I was in my last year of high school, a letter for me from a federal prison arrived in care of the school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of being housed inside the prison, they were brought to the football stadium on the property. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That one had gotten a taste for spicy humor in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go pack your suitcase for state prison,” she said to Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Trevor, Jasmine, and Maya knew my birth dad was in prison, but not why. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, the Alabama Department of Corrections couldn't just put people on death row or let them off without court orders or legal filings—and certainly no prison warden could do so on his own. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was always surprised at how many people from such a small town had been in prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I know the houses and shops, I know the faces of the women who sell oranges and bananas just before you turn into the pot- hole-filled road that leads to the prison yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They made mass arrests of students, sending them to the local jail, and when that was filled to capacity, to prison camps outside of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most overcrowded prisons don't have the capacity to provide care and treatment to the mentally ill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They would not be alone in their separate prisons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He sounded more like he was talking about a prison sentence. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some readers will leave this book wondering what we should do about our prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the prison and the embassy, the gatehouse in the drüskelle sector was built around a courtyard so anyone entering could be observed and fired upon from above. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

How much courage must it have taken for Rachel to brave her husband’s anger, and the dark and the strange terror of a prison shed! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

No one, as far as I could see, improved in prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for my dad to see his kid in prison, locked up, it was killing him. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ration board, the police, the officials—they’re all either helping their fellow citizens or denouncing them and sending them off to prison. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He invited me to visit his prison and even asked me to stay in his trailer when I did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that at some prisons upstate, guys with seniority wanted to be gallery officers, that the galleries were small and tightly run and relatively peaceful. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

EJI's program was specifically developed for people who have spent many years in prison after being incarcerated when they were children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because she was facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence, she made a deal to accept a prison sentence of twenty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prisoners trudge clockwise around the prison yard, marching single file on the worn path, their gray prison smocks billowing like the wings of birds. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Russia’s epidemic was ravaging its prisons, and prisoners were part of PIH’s special constituency—just check with Matthew 25 if you had any doubts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His prison records revealed that he often experienced psychotic episodes in which he would scream for hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Michael and I drove up to the gate, we could see incarcerated women hovering outside the prison entrance with no officers in view. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If your situation isn’t resolved that day, you go to prison to await trial. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn to sleep, I dreamed I was back in the old man’s Labyrinth prison. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He, too, informed the court that he had been assaulted while in prison, and subjected to electric shock treatment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was there, we had gone to see Uncle Perry in prison as though it were a typical family outing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The system of mass incarceration is based on the prison label, not prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Samp and beans was the best meal that the prison prepared, and in this case, the authorities put in more beans and gravy than usual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison children would press their faces against the metal gate and sniff the sweet scent of mangosteens and rambutans, the acid aroma of the pomelos and green oranges. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now Marcus was sitting in a prison cell, probably wearing an orange jumpsuit. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

That’s so cool that you get to work in the kitchen at the prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Luna, Ethyne, and Adara went to visit the former Grand Elder in prison. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina was only mildly surprised to see that Kaz was wearing a prison guard’s uniform beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They had been sent down from Auburn, New York State’s famous second prison, to construct Sing Sing, its third. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside we would have remained acquaintances, but prison is an incubator of friendship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The punishment was popular among prison officials because inmates so feared it and because it left no disfiguring marks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After prison I publish a novel under an assumed name. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jesper and Wylan debated which kinds of explosives might be assembled from the prison laundry supplies and if they could get their hands on some gunpowder in the embassy sector. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They left the prison as fast as they could. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ever since my release from prison, the state had continued its campaign to discredit my wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of wood and stone—a smaller version of the prison at Cape Coast. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she died, her remains were to be burnt in the prison yard, to prevent her spirit from wandering into any young innocent bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Naturally she was not going to help the magic Queen of Northgalis to keep Lancelot in prison—when it was the King of Northgalis himself who was going to fight her father. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new prison sounded horrible, but Pong couldn't believe that one march would stop it from being built. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The women inmates spent most of their days sheltered under the shade of this tree while the boats glided up and down and up again on the other side of the prison gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every second seeming like a minute keeping me trapped in this lame prison of cool kids and square pizza. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Still I am beating my wings against the walls of my cage,” I said ruefully, “for Elsinore sometimes seems a prison to me.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Now, Marcus wore jeans and a green Celtics T-shirt, which was one of the gifts I gave him after he came out of prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tutwiler is one of the state's oldest prisons and the only prison in the state for women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was no such thing as a thirty-year-old gangster: he was either working a legitimate job, dead, or in prison. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lawes ran his prison in a paternalistic way that had a warmth we would not recognize today. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes inserted into his memoir a “prison diary” that he claimed to have kept since the day he arrived at Moyamensing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She thought back to the damp and moldy shack she’d shared with her mother while her father was in prison, and the attic room at Jeremy Carton’s place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not every child sends a man to prison with a lie. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was necessary, he said, so that we didn’t panic if it occurred inside a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison guards watched her more closely because they thought that the wrinkles resulted from her taking off her skin at night and then putting it back on in a hurry, before sunrise. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Until the 1950s, when it became a civil service post, the job was a political appointment, often bestowed on men who knew nothing whatsoever about running a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been fascinated by prisons for a long time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

White tried to improve conditions in the prison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The prison officials had pumped themselves up to carry out the execution with determination and resolve, but even they revealed extreme discomfort and some measure of shame. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman agreed to suspend their prison sentences. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Not my way of life. Fairy prison, human prison. It’s all the same to me.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ray Black was in prison, so we weren’t able to talk to him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that within a day of the storm’s eye passing over the region, officials were making plans for the building of a makeshift outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Those confined to prisons are out of sight and out of mind; once released, they are typically confined to ghettos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As the only state prison for women, Tutwiler has no way to meaningfully classify and assign women to appropriate dorms. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mom, who swore like a prison guard, never cursed around Gran and Gramps. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also had a drawing pad and colored pencils, a manila envelope with important prison and parole papers, and my copy of The Brothers Karamazov. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller refused to negotiate directly with the inmates, and on September 13, worried that the inmates were harming their hostages, the state police launched a bloody battle to retake the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped in the prison yard to take a closer look at the truck. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to know more about you, but I don’t know what to ask you, what to ask someone in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

With every word, I feel the prison walls closing tighter around us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thank the kind prison guard, and he leaves the room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We were met by the commanding officer, Colonel Wessels, a rather colorless fellow who cared only about strict adherence to prison regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, many incarcerated people work in prison, typically earning far less than the minimum wage—often less than $3 per hour, sometimes as little as 25 cents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How would that feel, building your own prison? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His food was pushed between the bars at the front of his prison on the end of long poles, while the cub clawed and gnawed it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because of the difficulty of communication, information from prison often becomes exaggerated in the outside world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, according to my classmate Buckner, who preceded her to the women’s prison, an older woman inmate was in the habit of bragging to officers about her daughter, the correction officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Hang found a way to free himself from prison, I write to my brothers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recruited his army from the foulest criminals ever vomited up by corrupt prison systems anywhere in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We do not yet know exactly which prison.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Schools located in ghetto communities more closely resemble prisons than places of learning, creativity, or moral development. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Except for that one day when I had stayed with Ella on the way to Detroit after prison, I had not been in the old Roxbury streets for seven years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first strange thing about contraband was that its most obvious forms—weapons, drugs, and alcohol—could all be found fairly readily inside prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that Kathy was at the prison and his release was imminent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was an inveterate collector of these, which, in prison, tended to be extremely short. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is the Administration Building parking lot, and the main entrance to the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father threw her into prison for her treachery to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun began to explain his case, the mistakes that had brought him to prison, and asked for an immediate phone call to his wife. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But just because the prison label has become normal does not mean that it is generally viewed as acceptable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A clergyman, who must have borrowed his voice from Mr. Edel, concluded by asking God to take care of the Jews, all those in concentration camps and prisons and everyone working in Germany. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As we showed our I.D.s to leave the prison—a safeguard against inmates walking out the front door—I decided that if I were an escaping in-mate, I’d stay away from the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sounds nice when he writes to me, but he’s in prison for doing something terrible.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry that you’ve had to deal with a father in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They end up in a prison dungeon where their bodies are covered in scalding tar before they’re forced to eat their own waste. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Kabuo sat in his prison cell now and examined his reflection carefully. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I parked and found my way to the prison entrance and walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before my father went to prison, they played music together, my father on the piano, my uncle on the guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a high prison official who had just arrived from Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he somewhere in the prison fighting for his life? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I should have returned to Montgomery directly from the prison, but Walter's family wanted to meet, and since they were less than an hour from the prison I had promised to come to Monroeville. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The toilets and sinks were a single stainless-steel unit, such as were found in most newer jails and prisons but not generally in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never resolved this issue, but we did make some progress when we submitted a joint letter to the commanding officer setting out our complaints about prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filed down the dark halls and entered the former prison cafeteria. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the South, crimes like murder or assault might send you to prison, but interracial sex was a transgression in its own unique category of danger with correspondingly extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the state system, less than 3 percent of new court commitments to state prison typically involve people convicted of homicide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow had played checkers in prison: it passed the time. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even if he could get out of prison then, that was a very long time from now—especially if he was innocent. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were committed to providing services, housing, job training, life skills, counseling, and anything else people coming out of prison needed to succeed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there shouldn’t be bars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towers were considered the facility’s last line of defense, so they were to be inaccessible from within the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With him in prison gear, that prejudices my client. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that's the way she felt when my brother was taken away to prison. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders have been forced to spend decades in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a result, the full prisons were threatening to overwhelm the guards, and there were also whispers of revolt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Although I was pleased to have such a reception, I was greatly vexed by the fact that I did not have a chance to say good-bye to the prison staff. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital was like a prison with a strange, alarming smell inside that permeated everything. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spends six hours down there and paints the picture for Theo: it is like a beehive, with all its cells, or a dark underground prison. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There’s surprise, like I’m supposed to be in prison or something. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones, Captain Cox, the Garrett sons, and many more were seized and taken to prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Segregation is also created and perpetuated by the flood of people who return to ghetto communities from prisons each year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mayor Matthews, him who plotted to kill General Washington, escaped from the rebel prison and returned to New York in triumph. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was walking out with the major, we came upon a young prisoner being interviewed by a prison official. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He forced his trembling legs to follow her to a part of the house as different from his old prison as the sun was from a candle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homes may be searched for drugs based on a tip from an unreliable, confidential informant who is trading the information for money or to escape prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mama and I hardly ever come to the prison together. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a third tank, the jellies’ tentacles were so thick and straight it seemed like the animals had created their own prison. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was a dark period all around, a time that saw several of my father’s closest friends die or go to prison, while others simply vanished. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was disgusted to have to appear in court wearing my prison clothes of khaki shorts and flimsy sandals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just say it’s bad enough that Nita would rather be in prison for the rest of her life than come into contact with it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“He was one of those victims who didn’t show up in the FBI files and whose killers didn’t go to prison,” Webb said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Although “debtor’s prison” is illegal in all states, many states use the threat of probation or parole revocation as a debt-collection tool. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The lights were out by ten, but the prison was full of voices. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had tried to write him in prison, but regulations forbade prisoners from corresponding with each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are also routinely denied public housing and welfare benefits, and they find it increasingly difficult to obtain education, especially now that funding for public education has been hard-hit, due to exploding prison budgets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When Shin made his first bathroom request after his release from prison, his teacher said no. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most heroic are those who, upon release, launch social justice organizations that challenge the discrimination formerly incarcerated people face and provide desperately needed support for those newly released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jackson and two other “Soledad brothers” had been accused of helping beat to death a white correction officer at the California prison on January 16, 1970. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger No. 2 wanted to live and he did; he was in prison the last time I heard from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted never to have gone to prison, for Laura to still be alive, for none of this ever to have happened. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how many favors I would have had to call in? How many bribes I’d have had to pay out to get Matthias Helvar out of prison? The price was too high.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was going to have a long time in prison to think about that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am fairly certain the Ormaie Gestapo HQ will be my first stop on my way to whatever prison I end up in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If she felt good and started long enough before bedtime, he would hear about Joseph the slave-boy, Joseph in prison, Joseph the dreamer, and Joseph the Big Man in Egypt. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he went to check on her in the prison and found she wasn’t there, her and Ekon’s plan was ruined before it began. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger put his hand into her glass prison and carefully took the little creature out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She immediately issued a press release that detailed what had happened to the suffragists while they were in prison. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The prison had been built in 1805—in Napoleon’s day— and was even styled after the Bastille. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take our prisoner to the cells and hand her over to Otrera’s guards. And, Kinzie, be sure you leave before anything unfortunate happens. I don’t want my loyal followers held accountable for a prison break.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released on bail pending her appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine had been in prison for eight years by then. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This system depends on the prison label, not prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides the regular prison guards, a group of U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe put his dad in prison, or at least his mom thought so. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This stunning development reflects the dramatic increase in the number and race of those sent to prison for drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he starts to fall asleep, he keeps his arms around me fiercely, a life-preserving prison. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Sarai had argued that the citadel was prison but sanctuary, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say how I admired him for not crying about his father being in prison and for trying to be a normal kid. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

South African law does not guarantee a defendant the right to legal representation, and thousands upon thousands of indigent men and women went to prison every year for lack of such representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie wrote to me that she felt liberated in prison this time, and it served to reaffirm her commitment to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loves a good mince pie,” he said as he unlocked the door to the prison, pie crumbs spilling from his mouth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed far more likely that prisons would fade away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Early in his career, Kirkley related, while patrolling on a walkway inside a prison, he was jumped by five hooded inmates, who took his wallet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only evidence left of the spectacular event was that anyone who had once had a prison mark woke to find it gone. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You can't be on that bridge tonight. There might be police there. If they start checking people, you'll get taken back to prison.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Norfolk Prison Colony represented the most enlightened form of prison that I have ever heard of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith’s pencil sped almost indecipherably as he hurried toward more recent history: the motorcycle accident that had crippled him, the burglary in Phillipsburg, Kansas, that had led to his first prison sentence: ... In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deeply hidden inside the jungle were a scattering of small prisons, often just bamboo cages that held one man, forced to sit or crouch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The holding cells looked much more like the prison he had anticipated—no white stone or glass displays, just dank gray rock and iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You will write apology to peace-loving people of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,” the prison guard demanded. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The young men who go to prison rather than college face a lifetime of closed doors, discrimination, and ostracism. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a weird mix, everything from white-collar criminals to guys picked up on traffic stops to real, hardcore criminals covered with prison tattoos. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"He is a loquacious individual who likes to brag about his activities as an espionage agent and his connections with Nazis," the prison ward reported. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The correctional staff at the prison processing center couldn't find any uniforms that would fit a boy Ian's size, so they cut six inches from the bottom of their smallest pants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So, the big question is,” said Moss, “do we go to a prison or to a school?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Gradually, on a diet of eggnogs and orange juice, he regained weight; by October the prison physician, Dr. Robert Moore, considered him strong enough to be returned to the Row. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his first week out of prison in Montgomery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had never seen the inside of a maximum-security prison—and had certainly never been to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that the couple was married in a private ceremony in the prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Percentage of African American youths who do their time in an adult prison: 58. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Dime Lion led them around the tunnel to the third archway, where a prison guard dressed in a blue-and-gray uniform was posted, rifle slung across his back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Kathy didn’t hesitate, and began to tell him that her husband had been wrongfully arrested, sent to a maximum-security prison, held there for twenty-three days, and that now they were trying to retrieve his possessions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And she thought of the boys who had gone to prison. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I knew two of those Indians had fathers in prison. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

That day they were working in the prison shop, assembling bird feeders, which was barely more interesting than stamping out license plates. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

For all the years that I was in prison, I never failed to be surprised when the warder called, “Time up!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth of a home and a family was a healing change from the prison cage for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For larger groups, there was a variety of handheld grenades, and many prison mess halls had a special kind of cartridge installed in the ceiling, for quick remote activation in case of disturbance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was terrified that my husband would be physically harmed or sent to prison for the rest of his life.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He removed his shirt, shorts, and underwear, and they were taken away by prison workers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They played songs about lust, death, prison, and life on the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Without a doubt, I must perish; there is no way I can get out of this narrow prison.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Moldering in a Russian prison, Poncelet founded a new discipline: projective geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if their own fathers were in the state hospital or the federal prison, they hadn’t betrayed theirs, and Janice had. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We were brought before the lieutenant, who was the head of prison, and Van Rensburg announced, “These men did not work the whole day. I’m charging them for defying orders.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Failure to do so could mean more prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The trap door opened, and Hickock hung for all to see a full twenty minutes before the prison doctor at last said, “I pronounce this man dead.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parking lot, where a dozen buses might normally be parked, had been transformed into a vast outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

These men were in charge of administering the prisons on a day-to-day basis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Freddy, his comrade, had just been found hanging in his prison cell, a supposed suicide. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been so much stronger and braver in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Communities were on the lookout for bad moms who should be put in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My eyeglasses correct the astigmatism that I got from all the reading in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would spend the nights in Marshall Square prison and the days at the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ferguson twenty years later, the Court unanimously upheld Alabama's restrictions on interracial sex and marriage and affirmed the prison terms imposed on Tony Pace and Mary Cox. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Marcus could get out of prison, if we found his witness?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked right into him and saw his faults, and knew he’d been in prison. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Officers on construction detail—like the one who had witnessed me getting slugged in the head that day in A-block—accompanied outside tradesmen doing building or maintenance work inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as I am convinced that my wife’s life while I was in prison was more difficult than mine, my own return was also more difficult for her than it was for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are never wrong, in prison, to lock a gate,” a sergeant had reassured us at lineup one day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison sentences that often attended their activism did nothing to quell their ardor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These fellows refused to conform to even basic prison regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he said that those guitars cost thousands of dollars, and besides his birthday wasn’t until September, and the way he said September, it was like a judge issuing a prison sentence. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leonard is only eighteen years old and he is facing life in prison for a crime that he did not commit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were safely stashed in the abandoned cages below the old prison tower at Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out or headed for prison before they are old enough to vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Once she recovers from her substantial injuries, she will be transferred to our prison and will spend the duration of her life there,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A total of three hundred years in and out of prison. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The chickens stepped out, at first tentatively, then wildly, as if they’d been loosed from prison. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In at least fifteen states, blacks are admitted to prison on drug charges at a rate from twenty to fifty-seven times greater than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You don’t let people disrespect you in prison. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The prison service regulations were explicit that each prisoner was permitted to speak only for himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My strategy was to overwhelm the prison authorities and the courts with legitimate requests, which I knew they would have a difficult time satisfying. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prison camp isn’t a place for children; it isn’t a place for anyone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By the middle of February, nearly 3,400 demonstrators had been arrested, filling up the jails and several prison work camps in the area. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boxlike houses seemed so drab to me that I even felt sorry for the demons who lived in them, for they lived like prisoners without knowing they were in a prison. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s who I think it is, his name’s Bonneville. He’s not long out of prison.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You could feel the rush of prison growth even in the forgotten backwater of Sing Sing, where the superintendent had said that getting money to build new and bigger vocational shops was his number-one priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a lieutenant, often the watch commander, speaks, telling us what has gone on in the prison since we left the day before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a BDM leader, she was accused of miseducating Germany’s young people and sentenced to several years at a women’s prison camp. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In prison I got a second chance to realize I did have something to write about. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Situated, as we were, on the bank of a huge river, the metaphor suggested the prison was a big body of water and we were all in it together. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been considering that very thing, the thought of Christmas in prison being so depressing, but the memo pretty much torpedoed the idea. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That’s what this woman does, this mad American broadcaster, though her wages get paid by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda in Berlin—she walks hold as brass into prisons and prison camps and finds people. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five years in this Night Zoo was more than a prison sentence; it was an entire life gone—her life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even if he took the deal, what guarantee was there that Richard wouldn’t be sent to adult prison when he turned eighteen? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After almost a year in prison, he was so changed that I hardly knew him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Things started to be freed, and the prison gates swung open. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

From my desk within the walls of Sing Sing, I see daily the constantly increasing numbers of boys and young men who are committed to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could hear the report as the tower guards fired the gas gun, and then watch inmates disperse as the clouds of tear gas drifted toward the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I feel relieved that everyone I care about will be out of prison by tonight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a packed courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, the judge sentenced Ames to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The prison, according to apartheid dictates, separated detainees by color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how the prison worked, how any prison worked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But prison, it occurred to me, is actually a world of two sides— two colors of uniforms—the “us” and the “them.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They point to the current composition of state prisons as “proof” of this imagined fact, ignoring that sentencing practices distort our understanding of who is placed under state control and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope prison hasn’t robbed you of all your manners or good sense.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

More and more of Chicago’s black gangsters were getting sent to federal prisons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It is the largest population of child offenders condemned to die in prison in any single jurisdiction in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With respect to parole, in 1980, only 1 percent of all prison admissions were parole violators. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1926, Morrison, while serving time in prison for killing Anna Brown, sent a note to Hale, which was intercepted by guards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just when she started to wonder if Jesper had been wrong and sent up the flare too early, a prison wagon rumbled into view. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The following Monday morning, we began training inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flood of mentally ill people headed to prison for minor offenses and drug crimes or simply for behaviors their communities were unwilling to tolerate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have been in these prisons and I know how gross is the discrimination, even behind the prison wall, against Africans... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ho consolidated power by arresting anyone suspected of disloyalty to his regime, executing many, and sending thousands more to prison camps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In March 1983, he pled guilty to the burglary of a boot shop in Monahans and served seven months in prison. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

More accurately, she has been arrested and sent to prison—not this one, obviously—because she stole a couple of cabbages. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I said I didn’t want Shawn in prison but that some type of intervention was needed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said I wouldn’t be happy until Shawn was rotting in prison, that I’d come back from Cambridge just to raise hell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Chapter 4 considers how the caste system operates once people are released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d started to forget about the warden and the prison, and he's convinced himself that he had been forgotten, too. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Thirty days to bring me at least half of your back taxes, or go to prison. Or”—he splayed one hand out—“you can forfeit your property, and I’ll clear your debt.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hamlet once said that Denmark was a prison. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Like everything else in prison, diet is discriminatory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred Carter Jr., Deborah’s son, is in prison, serving a thirty-year sentence for robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and first- degree assault with a handgun. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a nondisclosure form stipulating that father and son would not tell anyone what had gone on inside the prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Tyrone and Johnny are now incarcerated in separate juvenile prisons in Illinois, where they could remain until they are twenty-one. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Notorious for overcrowding and violence, the prison was known by its initials, LBJ, in a sarcastic tip of the hat to the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The head of prison will say, “If I give you an extra blanket, I must give one to everyone.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nigro had told us that whenever prison administrators wanted to know what was really going on in a prison, what the mood of the inmates was, they asked the gallery officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, people are released from prison with only the clothes on their backs and a pittance in gate money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of permitting us to receive newspapers or listen to radio, they started their own radio news service, which consisted of a daily canned summary of the news read over the prison’s intercom system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me it was a weird contrast: the urgency about getting money on the outside versus the seeming lack of urgency about getting out of prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had to visit the prison daily. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the murder of Eric Morse, the Illinois legislature made a new law saying that children as young as ten could be locked up in youth prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes’s brother, Tony, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted as the trigger man in the death of Sergeant Prothero. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s why the Communists have been getting bolder. They tried to break into the prison house and release the Communist leaders.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She tried to talk to prison officials and gave interviews to the press to draw attention to Ian’s plight. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While in prison, Robert Chambliss penned a handwritten letter on Kilby Correctional Facility’s inmate stationery to the pastor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One deterrent that has proven moderately effective is a stiff increase in prison time for anyone caught in possession of an illegal gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a federal holding prison built inside Dutch Schultz's old liquor warehouse, which had been confiscated during Prohibition after Dutch was arrested. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The window gave at least the illusion of greater intimacy, and in prison, illusions can offer comfort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now in the prison yard, my mother was trying to avoid the eyes of the guard peering down at her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, we made decisions about such matters as prisoners’ complaints, strikes, mail, food — all of the day-to-day concerns of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story starts when Jean Valjean is released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One guy got a nutty idea on how to get out and before long every guy in the prison was trying it on every other guy. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been given what was in effect the prison’s penthouse: a spacious room on the third and topmost floor of the prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, they didn't feel the same way about living in Little Rock or about the prison the white people had created for us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The museum has written to wardens and prison directors all over Germany.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just hours earlier, he had convinced himself that he was bound for prison. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alongside our camp is the big Russian prison camp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at the prison, Joe was wheeled into the visitation area without any difficulty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Four decades ago, employers were free to discriminate explicitly on the basis of race; today employers feel free to discriminate against those who bear the prison label—i.e., those labeled criminals by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How could we leave Papa behind in a prison in Krasnoyarsk? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the prison’s inmates seemed bad through and through, the devil born in them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he thought she was about to show him a prison mark, but her dark bronze skin was bare. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But he also shared with us his surprising view that even at the most tightly run prisons, “we rule with the inmates’ consent.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These were not a vacation from prison but a busman’s holiday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just being in the prison yard was bringing back waves of that old panic. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs swung left and right and pulled down into a tight spiral into the edge of the central room of the prison floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study, about 30 percent of those released from prison in its sample were rearrested within six months of release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She looked for anything she might use to prop it open, and had to settle for tearing off a piece from the bottom of her prison trousers and stuffing it in the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mischief in his eyes makes me forget, for a too-brief second, that I am a slave and that my brother is in prison and that everyone else I love is dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And that’s how the whole prison found out about the assassination attempt. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I embrace her with all the love and affection I have nursed for her inside and outside prison from the moment I first met her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s in a prison ship somewhere,” she said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tried, once, to protect someone and had only hurled him into prison. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I probably knew, but in prison, you can’t let yourself know what you know.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because harsh sentencing is a major cause of the prison explosion, one might reasonably assume that substantially reducing the length of prison sentences would effectively dismantle this new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I never seriously considered the possibility that I would not emerge from prison one day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every bad prison movie I’d ever seen was racing through my head. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Moreover, most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And there were guys in prison clothes who hadn't made bail after their arrest and were now awaiting sentencing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how people just out of prison manage to readjust.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are four women with the last name Martin in the Edna Mahan prison. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The inmates seemed to be running the prison, not the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stared into the faces of the other two soldiers guarding the prison door. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the big private collection that Parkhurst had willed to the prison was still in crates and boxes in the back of the library—thousands of old books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We burst outside and found ourselves in the prison yard, ringed by security towers and barbed wire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before our prison visit today, we had planned to look at some rental houses Manolo’s friend Rudy and his wife Pilar had lined up for us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cofield sued guards and state officials connected to the prisons he’d been in, and was accused of calling the governor of Alabama from jail and threatening to murder him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the young people in DJJ facilities were tried in juvenile court, as those who go through adult court usually wind up in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rhythmically, he reached out, each stroke taking him farther away from his island prison. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had to sit on the book when prison staff couldn't fit the electrodes to his small frame. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

New York needed more prison space, and asked Lynds to build it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the Bronx and prison, a person could grow a bit lock-obsessed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garrick Bailey, a leading anthropologist on Osage culture, said to me, “If Hale had told what he knew, a high percentage of the county’s leading citizens would have been in prison.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I have not got scurvy yet, anyway, thanks to France’s infinite supply of prison cabbage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Their prison hospital X-ray machines were in a decrepit state, and there was a chronic shortage of even first-line antibiotics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The two Frenchmen asked Lynds what quality was the most important for a prison director. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one latrine per prison block—really just a row of holes cut in boards that sat over the cesspit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn't see them from outside the prison, but their voices rang out just the same—the voices were haunting because they were disembodied, but they were full of excitement and hopefulness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had to argue with the attending prison guard for permission to close the door and talk confidentially with Joe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My brothers’ Allah and the voices of the black men in prison who speak the same cryptic words. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was reading about Mr. Gandhi’s prison experience and how he quieted his fears and directed his thoughts so that his enemies were never really in charge of him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And prison is a terrible place for someone with mental illness or a neurological disorder that prison guards are not trained to understand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Someone who had known the governor of a prison. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Communication with one’s family is a human right; it should not be restricted by the artificial gradations of a prison system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thin lines of light streamed out of his prison mark. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had been out of the country and in prison while much of the planning at Rivonia had taken place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grim, overcast day, and when I stepped out of the plane, the cold winter wind whipped through our thin prison uniforms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, this sally port was used mainly for official vehicles—prison vans, state-police cars, ambulances—and it was a weekend day, so there wasn’t much traffic. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not been in my cell long when I was visited by the commanding officer and a number of other prison officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After sentencing, Trina was immediately shipped off to an adult prison for women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The face that peered back at me seemed to be peering from the grating of a prison cell after a prolonged beating. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it was one of the facts of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handcuffs, pistol, and continued beating were unfortunate but, hey, when you all shared the same difficult circumstance— prison work—you tended to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard still saw him frequently over the years, or as frequently as he could given that his father was sometimes in prison for drug offenses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In addition to nearly fifty arrests on everything from theft to suspicion of murder, Hurd had been in prison in Colorado separate times for stealing, possession of narcotics, and a parole violation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Innocence Project got him out of prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

David and I spent most of our days going to the prison, taking with us packages of food carefully prepared and wrapped by my mother. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“After those smugglers got out of prison, some of them were in very, very mean moods,” Elizebeth later recalled. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s a prison, keeping the better, thinner version of me locked away. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He described the prison routine in every aspect, but he never told her of its stupidity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I have already mentioned, I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a sensible alternative to prison, to living like this for the rest of his life. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Certainly no more than three quarters of an hour—not too many prisoners to release, as it’s not technically a prison—17 in all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My P.O. hasn’t realized yet that schools are just like the city and the city is just like prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When his father had gone to prison, everyone supposed he’d have a hard time, considering what his conviction was for. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t tell Father anything, and so neither the Mellower nor his mother would go to prison. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is astounding. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The uproar among the gallery made me forget for a moment that I would be going to prison to serve what was then the stiffest sentence yet imposed in South Africa for a political offense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freak and the Fair Gwen have supper with us, and we're all trying to pretend like everything is normal, and nobody says a word about Killer Kane getting out of prison. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Papa looked grim, like he was driving me to the state prison, so I didn’t press him on what Mrs. had waiting for me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo, but he escaped prison, thanks to his metalworking experience, which taught him how to make keys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was virtually no evidence against him, and I assumed the only reason the state kept up the charade of prosecuting him in prison was to intimidate progressive lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cape Coast Castle. It is a prison for our people. We will be held here until they have captured enough of us, then we will be sold and sent into the sea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to rallies, wrote letters to him in prison, and collected money for his legal defense. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they would both be thrown into prison. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is an astonishing development, especially given that as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the nation’s first prison boom and, as they are today, those taken prisoner were disproportionately black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the police to show up and drag us off to the Everglades prison. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was dirty and annoyed by the time I reached prison, and my irritation was aggravated by the fact that I was put in a single cell with this fellow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a south section of the prison compound there stands a curious little building: a dark two-storied building shaped like a coffin. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The prison is so stuffed, the walls are ready to burst. We’ve had to pack them into the sugarhouses and the confiscated churches, too.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back toward the front gate of the prison, trying to regain my focus, but I couldn’t make myself indifferent to what I perceived were symbols of racial oppression. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“All it takes is one mistake, and you’ll be visiting me in prison.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He speaks like he’s the entertainment director on a cruise ship, not the warden of a prison camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Though the prison cells were only one floor above them, it took four staircases to get there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I pitched the filth into the pit behind the prison and prayed it was not going atop any corpses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant Charlie wouldn't be sent to an adult prison, and he would likely be released before he turned eighteen, in just a few years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is the question that consumes me over the next three days as we wait to be released from our prison of safety. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A few days after I entered prison, I realized that I wouldn’t like talking about this part of my life. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I realized that I had to reveal this information even if I had to go to prison for the rest of my life.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I had my fill of serious subjects I began to think about my life before prison, and I found so much more to write about. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Knife and Fist, recently finished with their prison terms, were lounging in easy chairs, but Granny wasn’t with them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified that the same thing would happen to them, sixty-five others entered plea bargains and were given sentences for up to twenty-one years in prison. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The only means to pay off their debts was through labor on plantations and farms—known as convict leasing—or in prisons that had been converted to work farms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Courts have repeatedly found the prison unconstitutionally overcrowded, with almost twice the number of women incarcerated as it was designed to hold. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The second time, they didn’t even threaten that much except to say that it was too bad a pretty lady would have to grow old in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard what he said, Vanessa. He’ll call the police on us. I can’t go to prison,” Simon said as he tugged at his Green Teens shirt. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, it was a hazing ritual: Despite the instructors’ claims, I could see no real connection be-tween repeatedly falling flat on your face and self-preservation in-side a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though not primarily a reformer, Lawes had strong opinions about the possibilities of prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red brick buildings of the prison looked friendly, like the buildings of a seaside college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The routines of prison life following Shin’s interrogation and torture—discounting the screaming that periodically echoed down the prison corridor—were oddly sustaining. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A few guards watched as we walked out the front gate of the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t want you to go to prison. There’s a better path for you. I’m willing to tear up these files and release you, but you have to promise me one thing.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Drug forfeiture laws are frequently used to allow those with assets to buy their freedom, while drug users and small-time dealers with few assets to trade are subjected to lengthy prison terms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to. But you’re not going back to prison if you fail, and you’re not going to be the Champion, even if you make it to the duels. So you need to leave.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He set aside my two pairs of prison underwear, two pairs of socks, two round-neck white T-shirts, a pair of sneakers, a pair of work boots, gloves, and a wool cap. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Referring a defendant to treatment, rather than sending him or her to prison, may well be the most prudent choice—saving government resources and potentially saving the defendant from a lifetime of addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. assistant attorney general, who oversaw the federal prison system, had asked White if he would take over as warden of Leavenworth prison, in Kansas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We entered the prison yard near a corner of the main structure, beneath a guard tower that stuck out from the outer walls like a castle’s turret. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He flipped open the jacket and saw the prison library seal. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But mainly, he said, prison work was about waiting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected the inside of a homeless shelter to look like the inside of a prison, even though I had never been inside either. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once again, I felt as though Winnie and I were in prison at the same time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't rely on the prison to get a message to him if the Court ruled, so I asked him to call me every two hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had promised Herbert I would be with him during the execution, and it took me a few minutes to realize I needed to move quickly to get to the prison two hours away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You had to go to prison to get out?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Through the prison grapevine, I learned that Walter had been brought to Pretoria as well, and although we were isolated from each other we did manage to communicate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tell you it was worse than a prison. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in prison rags and old, beat-up sneakers so dirty that not even the brand name shows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anticipating criticism by observers outside prison, if not those within, he added, Of course I am not so foolish as to think that I can see it from exactly your point of view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A daughter should be able to know her father, even if he is in prison.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Let me get this straight. You went behind my back and gave Marcus’s address in prison to Zoe?” she asked Grandma. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I demanded to see the head of the prison and made a list of complaints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, without warning, Amari and the rest of the women were brought into the center of the prison by the white soldiers, who chained their hands behind them and shackled their feet as well. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not when they could take us back to Juvi, man. Or not even. This time we’d probably go to real prison.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean out of prison, Jaja. Not to a different cell,” I say. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the prison authorities wielded the classification system as a weapon against political prisoners, threatening to lower our hard-won classifications in order to control our behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The films were a wonderful diversion, a vivid escape from the bleakness of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By definition, if a man worked for the prison service he was probably brainwashed by the government’s propaganda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the citadel is our prison,” Sarai replied, “it’s our sanctuary, too.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, he envisioned a prison system that would dispense with them altogether. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run back inside and straight to my room, which is starting to feel like a prison cell. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Before his confinement in the secret prison and before his teacher and schoolmates began picking on him, Shin hadn’t thought to blame anyone for his birth inside Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Most days he'd woken up in a sweat, unable to shake the image of her towering over him, dragging him back to prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“No chance, convict. Government issue. Anyway, what would you do with one in prison? Get a close-up of the other side of your cell?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before his release from prison, he had to sign a confidentiality document. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Two armorers from the 588th Regiment were sentenced to ten years in prison because they’d taken little parachutes off unused flares and made silk panties out of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Stress, he said, worsened almost any condition, and prison— obviously—is stressful. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black woman and a white man were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

No one in the entire prison was paying attention. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A prison administrator dealing with captured American enlisted men for the first time should be warned: Expect no brotherly love, even between brothers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They asked him to change out of his new suit and wear a prison uniform. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Spent nearly two years in a prison camp. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who was in love with either/or. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though military boot camp had been the model, it was arresting this time around to see how much it really was like prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any true progress in the workings of a prison ought to be measurable in changes in the tenor of that relationship. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So there are ironies piled on ironies. The remedy here is imprisonment, and prisons are the ultimate incubators of antisocial attitudes.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the hearing had no sooner started than the prosecutor announced that the prison was withdrawing its case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wyatt was the only person who would hire Daddy when he got out of prison, and he later said Daddy was the only person he trusted to run the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at the bottom of the prison hierarchy. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sentenced Johnny and Tyrone to prison, making them the nation’s youngest inmates. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomsk was to be the major pilot project to stop the Russian TB epidemic, the project that would show the way to controlling—in prisons, towns, and cities throughout Russia—both drug-susceptible TB and MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They weren’t terms that came up in prison. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Being scared together created a great bond among boys, and being scared of each other created a great bond in prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They are typically charged with felonies and sentenced to prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the twenty-seven years that I was in prison, it was Oliver who saved the ANC, and then built it into an international organization with power and influence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or we help the county build a bigger animal prison,” Levi says, and Windy glares at him. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kim Yong had fled a prison that was not nearly as well guarded as the one where Shin and Park were planning their escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The moral weirdness of prison was never discussed—the racial inequality and the power inequality; the them and us; the constant saying no. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I lived and worked in the prison hospital—especially after I had become the X-ray technician—I was part of an emergency medical response team. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere inside the prison was apparently stressful at present. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One may learn to cope with the stigma of criminality, but like the stigma of race, the prison label is not something that black men in the ghetto can ever fully escape. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, Hsu wrote a letter to Lawrence asking if she could send a nurse out to Hagerstown to collect samples from Zakariyya in prison. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had come into the prison with such anxiety and fear about his willingness to tolerate my inadequacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s voice cracked with desperation, and Seven could think of nothing to do but to continue chipping away at their wood prison and getting the hex out of there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh snap! I mean, I kinda figured. But cool! Can we, uh, can we go storm the prison now?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Marcus will be able to get out of prison?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But even with all these ingenious methods, one of the best ways was also the easiest: getting sent to the prison hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretrial detainees are generally housed in local jails, where they enjoy more privileges and more latitude than convicted criminals who are sent to prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For over a century, institutional care for Americans suffering from serious mental illness shifted between prisons and hospitals set up to manage people with mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Despite my assurances that we'd be at the house shortly, everyone followed us to the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They give it a name, like it’s a summer sleepaway camp, and not a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Not the shell of a mother I remember from my night terrors or from my prison visit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I get that. But please don’t be mad at me. None of this is my fault. Marcus being in prison is not my fault.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Angola, the country’s largest prison, was built on an eighteen-thousand-acre former plantation once used for the breeding of slaves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I found this one of the most inhumane restrictions of the prison system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her underground prison waned as the darkness reclaimed it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We can’t simply go someplace snowy and look for a prison.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I figure I should tell you the things that led to my divorce, and things that caused me to go to prison. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a prisoner was released, the prison crossed out their mark with a line and added a little star symbol. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Even wearing his prison clothes, he was handsome. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were several times every day when inmates, if they were or-ganized, could take over most of a prison, he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authorities had seized a note that he had sent to Hale in prison, in which he had promised to “burn” down the authorities “if I ever get the Chance.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They do not mention Papa and they hardly mention prison. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nina recognized that sound—she’d heard it on the northern road before they waylaid the prison wagon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As I stepped off the conveyor, the HR computer directed me to a nearby cafeteria that looked like something out of an old prison movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tossed my backpack onto the backseat and then slumped in the passenger seat with the goldfish suspended in their plastic prison between my legs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s loud in there, like in some old prison movie. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were there contractors and laborers working around the clock on a prison days after the hurricane? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a year in the life, it's hard to get comfortable in my bland gray prison clothes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I loved those getting-caught stories, and they were among the first ones I wrote down in my secret prison journal. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Colbey rejected the State's offer of a plea agreement, pursuant to which she would have gone to prison for eighteen years, because she was adamant that she had done nothing wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anything in this prison would be tolerable if he could only call her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone, I suppose, wanted to be known as a murderer in prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a bit unusual; I frequently saw black and brown correctional officers at other prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was in some kind of prison, she realized, but where? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But if his first fourteen years hadn’t been rooted in a healthy diet of education and the richness of his heritage, Malcolm wouldn’t have found himself gravitating to the prison libraries after he was incarcerated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of weeks, prison officials were so concerned that they sent him to the state hospital for the mentally ill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She would talk about her case, the challenge of keeping her family together while she was in prison, and a range of other problems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In prison, one counts oneself lucky to be able to wave good-bye to one’s comrades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be a little like being in prison. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No, there was no way out, and no one can imagine what nights in prison are like. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the five months since he had gotten out of prison, he had not touched Gerald, hadn't even raised his voice. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked to Daddy on the phone every week, but he didn’t want me and Seven to ever set foot in a prison, so I didn’t see him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Or why you were finally able to free yourself from your prison of the well to this lake?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the Red Cross’s visit we had submitted a formal list of complaints to the commissioner of prisons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am prepared to pay the penalty even though I know how bitter and desperate is the situation of an African in the prisons of this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he was asked to show up in prison so the other saboteurs would know that everyone was caught and the mission was dead, he complied. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how someone in prison would sound, exactly, but I guessed they wouldn’t be so smart. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Lee, we had bugs in that prison camp,” Daddy said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

To the Frenchmen, “accustomed to the fortress-like houses of detention and the old-fashioned walled prisons of France, it was an extraordinary sight.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They seem to like it in prison. They have refused.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell me anything other than she’s serving a prison sentence here. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Most of the time, individuals don’t come out of prison better.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If convicted, he faced a maximum sentence of life in prison, a punishment he would never have faced if he had been charged as a juvenile. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He seems—glimpsed through the flowering bars—a man locked in a strangely gorgeous prison. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One is the son of a defrocked snakehandling pastor who is currently serving a prison sentence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Besides working for the Soros Foundation, he represented the Russian Ministry of Justice, which ran the country’s prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She wants to find out who that missionary was, the man who met her husband in prison and took her phone number—the messenger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It soon became the leading model for prisons in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time became his ally, as inside the prison memories slowly faded of Blake's treachery outside the walls, and Wormwood Scrubs came to view George Blake as a helpful and harmless middle-aged man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

American Correctional Association President Gwendolyn Chunn put the matter more bluntly that same year when lamenting that the unprecedented prison expansion boom of the 1990s seemed to be leveling off. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Marsha arrived at Tutwiler, we won the release of Diane Jones, who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to die in prison for a crime she had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A lot of men who got out of prison—whether they were truly guilty or not—had trouble finding jobs. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

New York’s seventy-one prisons are scattered across the state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe prison had given him some new perspective. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“So, in prison,” Henry continues, “I had two years to think about what happened.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I want my child to pass the eighth grade; she acts like I’m a prison warden,” she says to no one in particular. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But they were missed by many others, and every day of the week these people found their way to the prison via bus, car, train, and taxi. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a popular saying to the effect that England is a paradise for women, a prison for servants, and a hell for horses. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We were amazed that this could happen inside a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adnan would pick her up and drive her to the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Though it probably has its moments, the average day spent in hiding is bound to beat the average day spent in prison. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Little can be said in favor of prison, but enforced isolation is conducive to study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The odds,” he told a reporter, “are in favor of my spending a long time in prison.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Outside the prison entrance were dozens of men with guns sitting on the backs of trucks that lined the long road to the prison parking area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It took me a while to sort it out, but I realized something sitting there while Jimmy Dill was being killed at Holman prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was with these people for only a brief window of time, but in that moment I saw the difference between prison and jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There I became friendly with a handful of union reps, including Rick Kingsley, of Washington Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Comstock, New York. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t bought ourselves a single thing since before prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been held in prison once for three days for printing a picture in which Trujillo’s bare leg showed between the cuff of his pants and the top of his sock. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just joined last February when the call went out. So far I’ve only done prison detail.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also told the Court that to say to any child of thirteen that he is fit only to die in prison is cruel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before his time in prison, Shin had managed to make a strategic classroom alliance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The lack of treatment makes compliance with the myriad rules that define prison life impossible for many disabled people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s in prison. I’m a missionary. I was at Hunt, the prison up in St. Gabriel. He’s there. He gave me your number.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As I was walking back to the prison with the captain, I commented on what I thought was the curious behavior of the two young men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When life was funny in prison it was hysterically funny. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Like hundreds of women who give birth while in prison, Trina was completely unprepared for the stress of childbirth. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It achieves racial segregation by segregating people in prison—the majority of whom are black and brown—from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The group was armed with a Winchester rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, and six sticks of dynamite, which had been smuggled into the prison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My wife, Margot, is of course asked all the time how she put up with me working at prison, how the household endured it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell, and Winterfell his prison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By getting hired as a CO I effectively circumvented their prohibition on visiting the training academy and the prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riots have almost always been the result of poor prison administration or operation, not inmate knowledge of our top secret aikido grips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our buttons were undone, our hats unremoved, or our cells untidy, we were charged with a violation of the prison code and punished with either solitary confinement or the loss of meals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the judge pronounced a new sentence that meant Mr. Caston would immediately be released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is nothing so encouraging in prison as learning that the people outside are supporting the cause for which you are inside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, racial hostility and racial violence have not altogether disappeared, given that complaints of racial slurs and brutality by the police and prison guards are fairly common. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was all worse than he had ever dreamed: to have drifted all those months in white smoke, only to wake up again in the prison camp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pregnant women could now be criminally prosecuted and sent to prison for decades if there was any evidence that they had used drugs at any point during their pregnancy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So common is confinement among the older brothers of young minority-group men I have met in New York City that a prison term seems practically inevitable to many, almost a rite of passage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days, there were no rabbits about, but within the walls of the prison lived a large colony of wild cats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, we would start this call-and- response ourselves, but that night, other nameless prisoners took the initiative, and the voices from around the prison seemed uncommonly strong as though steeling us for what lay ahead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison had made arrangements for me to go back to the death chamber in about an hour to be with Herbert before the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I got to the court where the hearing would take place, about a three-hour drive from the prison, I went to see Avery in the court's basement holding cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before the arrests I had deliberately cut down my weight, in anticipation of prison, where one should be lean and able to survive on little. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We don't have the manpower to break into a Martial prison. We'd risk too much.'' I don't get the chance to protest because Sana's speaking for me. " An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I would indict the prison system as a whole as a racist institution that sought to perpetuate white supremacy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He thought back to their days at Namwon, when Somkit would hoard any little bits and bobs they could fish out of the river through the prison gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The jury found that the district attorney, Harry Connick Sr., had illegally suppressed evidence of Thompson’s innocence and had allowed him to spend fourteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The news spread from the prison as fast as it had spread from cell to cell: The rebels had attacked instead of running. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me, as we ate lunch in the prison auditorium, that there had been no particular need for us to go into that yard, or to linger there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And prisons have power-thirsty, corrupt guards, just like schools have teachers.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a yank at my prison gown. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then Cora only needed the candlelight for company, having collected the particulars of her prison. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The prison authorities respected the Red Cross — and by respected, I mean feared, for the authorities respected only what they were afraid of. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nationally, 58 percent of all incarcerated African American youths are serving their time in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t serve a single day in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even those without prison marks glowed softly, like paper lamps. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And Blanchard’s yellow silk balloon that tugged against its ropes, hungry to escape the confines of the prison yard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Akers, a prison administrator, had me mop and clean his office, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In many places, the poverty was far worse than when I went to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want his brother in prison at all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jumbled piles of debris that had once been fixtures and conveniences inside the prison lay scattered all over the grounds. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

More than a dozen of our Louisiana clients who were sentenced as juveniles to die in prison are now at home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because most new prison construction occurs in predominately white, rural areas, these communities benefit from inflated population totals at the expense of the urban, overwhelmingly minority communities from which people in prison frequently come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He had it cut out on a prison galley,” Brother Argos told him when he was old enough to understand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The prison was ten blocks away from the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Osborne, Lawes believed that increasing public knowledge of prisons could only be good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further, the prison was so isolated that there was no oversight whatsoever, no civilians who came to check on conditions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not long after Walter left, I was walking to the prison hospital with Sobukwe when I spotted Nana Sita in the courtyard about twenty-five yards away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both sentenced to five years in adult prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had read some of the classic Greek plays in prison, and found them enormously elevating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere is relaxed and informal, more like a school than a prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I never thought about whether prisons had the wrong people before. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t raise you to steal from others, so dont complain to me how tuff it is in prison. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided to publish a report to draw attention to the plight of children in the United States who had been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Osborne had brought prisons to the public eye through his spectacular deeds; Lawes had other methods. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even those who are technically eligible to vote following release from prison frequently remain disenfranchised for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One thing he had learned early, you do your own time in prison. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Most return to impoverished neighborhoods in the Chicago area, bringing few resources and bearing the stigma of their prison record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The guillotine snaps its iron jaws with a clang that rings throughout the prison. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers do a poor job of recognizing the special needs of the mentally disabled, which leads to wrongful convictions, lengthier prison terms, and high rates of recidivism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Although we criticized it, we could not ignore it: the classification system was an inflexible feature of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a quarter of a mile in front of the gate, the car slowed to a stop and Winnie and I got out and began to walk toward the prison gate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, they petitioned the state to change the prison’s name back to Sing Sing, and in 1983, the state did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Dasch was sentenced to prison, he stopped helping the government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Moving from one prison to another always requires a period of adjustment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in close to forty years, the country's prison population did not increase in 2011. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were moments when, due to the constant tension of prison life and the general lack of catharsis, violence and the potential for violence became a thrill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep having the same sensation over and over: If this place weren’t a prison, it would be beautiful. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Dying sucks, I bet, but getting locked up in prison while life keeps going on without you has gotta be worse. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They all prayed for me to become converted while I was in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans taught us how to build prisons. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He would spend the rest of his life in a police cell, or in a prison for kids. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When I met him, prison doctors were heavily medicating him with psychotropic drugs, which at least stabilized his behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had left the empire after completing his prison sentence for another murder, the butchering of a rabbi’s son in Odessa. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The article warned that “illegal voters” would be subject to a $500 fine and as much as three years in prison. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three of the men were under death sentence, and the fourth was serving a long prison sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether it was Cuba, Russia, or the United States, whether about the nature of crime, money, or bureaucracies—or human nature in general, including how many people really belonged in prison—their views rarely matched. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The sentence imposed was four years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He told them that I was just out of prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tiny dark prison shook, and I was suddenly dragged out into the light. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

White wrote back that she would be welcome at the prison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You better. If you drop the lord chancellor’s apple, you’ll go to prison.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was one funny thing about it, though—it wasn’t a Rebel prison ship, it was a British one. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Did you see your mother in there?” his father asked repeatedly, referring to the underground prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

During those first few weeks, warders from other sections and even other prisons came to stare at us as if we were a collection of rare caged animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, my anger toward whites decreased, but my hatred for the system grew. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I asked if Father would be arrested and go to prison for killing Wellington because we could live in the house if he was in prison. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, we were lined up to have our fingerprints taken, which was routine prison service business. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever was down in that circular prison, there was nothing she could do for it right now. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But my father, respecting my grandmother’s last wishes, left Gerald alone to the justice system, which ended up sending him to prison for eighteen months. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Congress ordered Church put in a Connecticut prison. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will rot in a federal prison for the remainder of your life.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take much to become a prison guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have always been so in prison, though it cannot be said that earlier generations looked upon it with today’s tolerance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if he’s in a federal prison or a state prison. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The new leader, Sheikh Mujib Rahman, recently released from prison, asked countries for building materials to replace more than one million houses that had been destroyed in the war. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Man, I really don’t want to break into buildings. I don’t think I would do well in New York prisons.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Off to one side was Lieutenant Prins and in the center of this circle was a warrant officer who was the prison prosecutor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scrambled down the stairs, through a corridor, and past a guard’s station—out into another block of prison cells. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he woke up again, he was tied to the bed in the hospital back in prison. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would the wardens think of the underground prison? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had also lost a wife, and was also in a prison. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll break your brother out of prison if you spy for us.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In other prisons, convicts often said that if you had the right money, or connections, you could get transferred to this Colony whose penal policies sounded almost too good to be true. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2007, we wrote to Joe and discovered that he had no legal assistance and had spent the previous eighteen years in prison with no one to help him challenge his conviction or sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The guards are always bringing us the prison mending. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My main concern was that he was wearing a suit, impractical dress for prison, but we managed to find him some old clothes instead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike judges and magistrates, who were automatically permitted access to prisons, members of Parliament had to request permission to visit a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were subjected to a very cursory pat-down in the prison lobby by a male officer before being admitted through the barred gate to the main prison area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But that didn't mean there were no after effects from his time in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I entered prison, they took away my belt, my shoelaces, my tie, and everything I had in my pockets, my cigarettes in particular. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After the coronation, the death cell prisoners will be executed—which means that unless the Resistance gets him out of prison, Darin will die tomorrow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He groped for the light, realized as he felt the rough walls that he had traveled back to 1944, to the prison hospital again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything funny or clever, and, to be on the safe side, when he was talking to a prison official, whenever possible, he didn’t say anything at all. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t Mom want to see him in prison before the trial?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As a result, they’ll probably both confess and both spend three years in prison. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to quickly wrap up my work and prepare for the seven weeks away from home—and possibly much more, if I decided to stick with the job and work in a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t interrogate many women in Ormaie—usually send them straight to prison in Paris, I think. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If it did, Richard would be transferred to an adult prison when he turned eighteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The killer had secretly created and then marketed soft-ware from within the Minnesota state prison system while participating in a vocational course that allowed him access to the Internet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sign says, “School or prison?” with a picture of an armed cop. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor of my little nondescript, white-walled prison room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And Dasch asked if he was going to be let out of prison. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dasch was sentenced to thirty years in prison, and Burger was sentenced to life in prison. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The school cleared out in minutes, just as any prison would have if the warden opened the gate. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I think this problem—not being taken into account—exists in some degree, however minimal, for nearly all people who work in prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert Swinyard says our school and the Maze prison were built by the same architect. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One time, a melee broke out in the prison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Forty-eight hours, starting with oatmeal and prison coffee and a guard named Wilson who tapped Shadow harder than he had to on the shoulder and said, “Shadow? This way.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The effort to become invisible, or to appear nonthreatening yet dangerous, was exhausting, which is why in prison almost everyone wanted drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He said from the bench, “The Court believes that to sentence Mr. Angelos to prison for the rest of his life is unjust, cruel, and even irrational.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because your number in prison became part of you. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d rather be here, even in prison, than turning his back on an outrage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the intent was to send him to Florida and put him in prison there.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

That was simply its nature, a feature of prison work as enduring as Sing Sing’s cellblock design. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, we at the Order have taken the liberty of rounding up all the bards, singers, preachers, and printers who might complain, and we’ve slapped them in prison. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He thought that everything would go well and that I would get off with a few years in prison or at hard labor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Steve did not take kindly to the prison head’s jab, and he was incapable of letting an insult go unanswered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream, I had just been released from prison — only it was not Robben Island, but a jail in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been able to support her when I was practicing as an attorney, but once I went to prison, I was unable to help her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Firing porters, I knew, was a bureaucratic procedure that took weeks; I’d be working elsewhere in the prison before the wheels had even begun to turn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive to the prison, Walter told me that the men on death row had held a special service for him on his last night. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pericles seems to have engineered Anaxagoras’ release from prison, but it was too late. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the procedure, three or four prison guards pinned the women down and forced their heads back. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had the prison warden’s name—G. Patterson—on the door in black letters, and beside the door, a miniature traffic light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The prison service provided me with a cook, Warrant Officer Swart, a tall, quiet Afrikaner who had once been a warder on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged behind a desk, not running a big operation like a prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They gave him ten years in prison, and to be honest, I don't know if I'm happy about that or not. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya was out of prison after serving only seven of his fifteen- year sentence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was saying that forgetfulness and shows of weakness or emotion wouldn’t fly in prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of men being whipped as they struggled to move carts prompted consternation among a legislative committee convened to examine the prison in 1832, with particular attention to the system’s harsher aspects. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his mom in prison, he lives with his grandma, and he’s always yapping to her. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Terrified of doing prison time, he takes the deal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some people, like Ora Lee Hurley, find themselves trapped by fees and fines in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In prison, unlike in the outside world, power and authority were at stake in nearly every transaction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy disappeared from the prison that year, and it was a complete mystery what happened to him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And a year ago Janell was seriously assaulted by another ex-boyfriend who had just gotten out of prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It can’t be done. The prison sector is completely isolated from the rest of the Ice Court. It isn’t connected to the embassy. There’s no way to reach it from there.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the prison cart rolled by, he’d signal the rest of the crew with a flare, then sprint back to join them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was in dispute was how much money the prisons would receive and how much would go to the civilian sector. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there is some place other than prison.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Dobrynya. You may take me to prison. But please let my husband’s regiment know what happened. Please bring him home.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“If he’s innocent, then how come he’s been in prison this whole time?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The crime wave of the 1920s and 1930s, the great gangster era, increased public interest in prisons and punishment, and the interest of Hollywood in particular. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campaign to improve conditions in prison was part of the apartheid struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived out the remainder of his life in Azkaban, lamenting the loss of Marvolo’s last heirloom, and is buried beside the prison, alongside the other poor souls who have expired within its walls.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted entry was cold and bare, lit by the same harsh light as the Grisha cells in the prison wing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Despite her uniform, she'd always seemed a little out of place at the prison, and she looked especially uncomfortable now. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"So much bloodshed," Lou says, peering through the bars of a prison cell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are times when prison must seem a haven. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was staggering to contemplate the accrued tales of dysfunction, pain, and violence that had preceded these prison terms—and, frankly, easier not to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison was dark, only a few dim fluorescent lights flickering above. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Outside the three dorm buildings was a large gym, built by Warner Bros, as thanks for use of the Death House and other prison sites in its gangster movies of the 1930s. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony and the other two defendants had all been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I got out of prison this morning,” he said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The judge sentenced Alger Hiss to five years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, Van Rensburg stood in front of us and said, “Fikile Bam and Nelson Mandela, I want to see you in front of the head of prison.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some cases, clients had already been in prison for decades and had very few, if any, support systems to help them re-enter society. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was as though I became mute the moment I stepped into the prison yard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The ice men began to believe that they would never be released from their prison. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One element of the growth is the rise of for-profit prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn't, and maybe my boldness impressed him, because he told me my father was at St. Michael's prison. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had been hired while still on probation after doing time, and he was passionate about keeping young people out of prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, free of weaponry, we passed through the sally port and went back inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the drugs probably slipped in through the Visit Room, but most, it seemed, were helped into prison by officers who were paid off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a mobile home, but it’s still prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If she had been about to cart me off to prison, I don’t think I could have refused—Come for a walk, I’ve got things to tell you? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We know that people released from prison face a lifetime of discrimination, scorn, and exclusion, and yet we claim not to know that an undercaste exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The pattern was clear now: the prisoners who were being transferred from other prisons came by bus and weren’t processed, while those arrested after the storm were processed inside and brought through the back door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But this picture would wildly distort your understanding of the population that had been sentenced to prison during the past ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I made a detailed sketch of the prison grounds with particular emphasis on the exact location of the prison hospital and the gates leading out of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How is one to choose between the Gestapo inquisitor and the prison cook? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Approximately a half-million people are in prison or jail for a drug offense today, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980—an increase of 1,100 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The thing I’ve never told you guys is that my dad’s in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The leaders of the American movement to rethink the prison were the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first question on the minds of many people released from prison as they take their first steps outside the prison gates is where will they sleep that night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To put the matter more starkly: About as many people were returned to prison for parole violations in 2000 as were admitted to prison in 1980 for all reasons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The prisons were always full of our people. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“No, I think it’s a prison camp. Look—the lighting’s around the perimeter fence. To catch anyone trying to get out.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know what was going on, but we could see soldiers running along Pademba Road and army trucks speeding up and down in front of the prison area. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because there were a few cases of tuberculosis in the prison, everyone had to get a periodic chest X-ray. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In being sent to prison, they had no doubt let people down; some who loved them no longer wanted to see them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rap music changed after the War on Drugs shifted into high gear and thousands of young, black men were suddenly swept off the streets and into prisons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get emotional about them; the letters were just a reminder that my father was still in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He released my arm and allowed me to walk inside the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It has always killed me how fast the criminal goes from being a bad guy at his trial to some kind of victim once he’s in prison, according to public perception,” he added. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison was full of sounds, and it was hard not to jump at every one of them—voices floating down the stairwell, the metallic clang of doors opening and closing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not that Shackleton had completely given up hope of escaping from the icy prison. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Johann Montefiore, of Lombardy, if you do not report to the Hall of Justice tonight, you will be found and thrown into prison.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Florida Department of Corrections built the prison to house 1,600 people in the 1990s, when America was opening prisons at a pace never before seen in human history. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It turns out Mama was in the women’s state prison and Dusty was in another jail in Florida. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

You will remember my having said that, when I was in prison, Mr. Muhammad would be my brother Wilfred’s house guest whenever he visited Detroit Temple Number One. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they both remain silent, they’ll each get only one year in prison. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most important fact to keep in mind, however, is that debates about prison statistics typically ignore a key fact: most people who are under state supervision and control are not in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The essential relationship inside a prison is the one between a guard and an inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fast, and prison had made him strong. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

According to one study, during a twelve-year period, the number of people returning from prison back home to “core counties”—those counties that contain the inner city of a metropolitan area—tripled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They’d shaved his head smooth and dressed him in an orange prison jumpsuit. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even people in prison wrote to us, telling us that they hope our future is successful, because they were doubtful about their own. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That seems surprising, even after the dozen years since I have been out of prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could free the city from its shadow now, and Sarai from her prison. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison like my dad does. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one, it still feels like a prison. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Herbert became one of thousands of combat veterans who end up in jail or prison after completing their military service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Paul realized that some women weren’t cut out for a stay in prison. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was taken out, put into the van, and driven to the prison, where I had something to eat. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They created those prisons, so now they should rot in them!” she shouted, not making much sense at all. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go down and report on Cuba’s prisons?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My parents, David, Pesza, and I arrived still wearing our striped prison uniforms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In some states, black men have been admitted to prison on drug charges at rates twenty to fifty times greater than those of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Roza woke in the dark chill of her castle prison, the taste of honey on her lips. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But in prison no privilege comes without some accompanying impediment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just transferred into Sing Sing from another prison the day before; it had been his first time ever in the B-block yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guys, I’m not ready to go back to food prison,” she says. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He worked in a soft job in the prison’s school. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This created formidable problems not only for Oliver and me, but for the police and the prison authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Asriel. And they got him captive on Svalbard, you see. I think the Gobblers betrayed him and paid the bears to keep him in prison.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Julia says the police in South Africa don't always bother with prisons, and that often they throw you off a tall building and say you tried to escape. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the time Walter was set free, Alabama was not among the handful of states that provided aid to innocent people released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He did not awake in prison with a feeling of dread; he was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

High-strung and unpredictable, the prison warden labeled him a "troublemaker." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I put the letter into the box for the prison censor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milosevic was later charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, and died in prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...I know he got sent to prison. What would make a lady like you marry a guy who liked to steal from people?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

With a foreign debt now in the billions, any hope that was left for our Independence is handcuffed in debtor’s prison. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a prison camp. Have you seen pictures of the concentration camps in World War Two?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I had been to this prison often enough to be familiar to many of the correctional officers, but as I entered I was met by a correctional officer I’d never seen before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was going to go to prison for a while and then be set free with the same nothing he had going in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a young, neatly groomed African American man with short hair—clean-shaven, medium frame and build—wearing bright, clean prison whites. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A passable slogan for a factory but an odd concept, it seemed to me, for junior prison guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought me a new pair of expensive pajamas and a lovely silk gown more appropriate to a salon than a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer had been to the prison before, but an official still warned us, “Don’t get lost. This is not a good place to get lost.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning every other month, my uncle drove the two of us the seven hours to Malone, where my dad was in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We would leave for the trial in the morning and return to the prison in the afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One August day in 1929, when it was so nightmarishly hot that the milk in the prison’s kitchen soured, a riot erupted in the mess hall. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He suggested we postpone the armed struggle until Sobukwe came out of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Milan, Michigan, federal prison, Mr. Muhammad served three and a half years, then he was paroled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were smuggled into prisons and concentration camps and across borders into Sweden and Switzerland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He apol-ogized that I had not had a chance to change out of my prison clothes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove through the entire length of the prison, and then along a winding dirt road through a rather wild, wooded area at the rear of the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No newsmen were allowed in Sing Sing at the electrocutions of four men on July 7,1891; prison officials claimed that each was dead within six minutes of entering the execution room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the dream I cherished when I entered prison at the age of forty-four, but I was no longer a young man, I was seventy-one, and I could not afford to waste any time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie counted carefully, while behind her counting, her mind sang, “Stone walls do not a prison make.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used his stay in prison to reinvent the concept of a point at infinity, and combining it with Monge’s work, he became the first true projective geometer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We told him how chaotic it seemed to us inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reports that prison populations in at least ten states are expected to increase by 25 percent or more between 2006 and 2011. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had to spend the rest of the day inside, so there was no point in rushing back to my apartment prison. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The trial court sentenced Mrs. Colbey to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and a short while later she found herself shackled in a prison van heading to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, a study by the Vera Institute found that during the first month after release from prison, people consistently were more preoccupied with finding work than anything else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was five years old, nearly six, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want to talk about prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Paula rustled around in her box as if looking for a way out of her boring cardboard prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Goldfarb represented the Russian Ministry of Justice, which ran the prisons, Farmer was warned explicitly to keep Alex away from the meetings. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The shell of that 1826 cellblock still stands, on the other side of the high wall I park against; the prison has continued to grow all around it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC’s leaders, we said, had to be willing to violate the law and if necessary go to prison for their beliefs as Gandhi had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything that departs from this pattern upsets the authorities, for routine is the sign of a well-run prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All seven faced long prison sentences—but only for the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One must be prepared for precipitate movements in prison, but one does not ever get used to them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem like he was writing from prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She trudged down the length of the throne room and through the door to the prison. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And gradually it came to him that CeUa had forgotten him, that she was never going to rescue him from this prison. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsa had given me this book when I first got out of prison to show me, she said, that being passive and gentle could be revolutionary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lastly, prison is hardly a cheap solution: it costs about $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I guess the grapevine had gotten back to Momma and Dad that By was going to make a prison break tonight before he got transferred to Alabama. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One did not have much use for ties in prison, and I realized that morning when I was putting it on that I had forgotten how to tie it properly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they hired a lawyer, Louis Koerner, to pursue a civil suit against the city, the state, the prisons, the police department, and a half-dozen other agencies and individuals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It has fewer security restrictions than the men’s prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The inmate had been telling me that the farther north you went in the prison system, the less talking there was between officers and inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never looked back, but that doesn’t make me any different from a million inmates who have left a prison behind them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Many people break down for the first time in prison,” the official said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me I should take advantage of the prison correspondence courses and the library. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody could believe it back in 1826: a work crew of convicts, camping on the riverbank, actually induced to build their own prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still struggling at the women's prison but was excited about the possibility of our doing something to change her sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is precisely because our criminal justice system provides a vehicle for the expression of conscious and unconscious antiblack sentiment that the prison label is experienced as a racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It's a long bus ride to the state prison. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t understand. If I don’t get him out of prison, they’ll torture him— they’ll sell him or kill him. He’s all I have—he’s the only one left!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yet prison censors went through each of those newspapers every day with scissors, clipping articles that they deemed unsafe for us to see. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really united them was what they witnessed in the network of prisons, where TB was now the leading cause of death. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Twelve were condemned to death, seven to prison terms, and three were acquitted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wore scratchy prison uniforms, including one-size-fits-all shoes with interchangeable right and left feet. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More powerful than my fear of the dreadful conditions to which I might be subjected in prison is my hatred for the dreadful conditions to which my people are subjected outside prison throughout this country.... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had some difficult encounters with officers getting into prisons from time to time, mostly in small county jails or places where I’d never been before, but this was highly unusual. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He hated all the people who lived in air-conditioned houses with the windows permanently sealed, and drove air-conditioned cars to nine-to-five jobs in air-conditioned office buildings that he said were little more than gussied-up prisons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But still: the guy spent most of his life in prison. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

We interviewed him in the prison visiting room. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved on to other subjects, but it was clear that his heart and his mind were aligned with the plight of the condemned and those facing unjust treatment in jails and prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That’s why operators are always real polite to people calling from prisons, Shadow had decided: they knew that he paid their wages. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Like, maybe send him a letter in prison?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As Ellsberg turned toward the policemen waiting for him at the top of the courthouse steps, a reporter shouted: “Do you have any concern about the possibility of going to prison for this?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In prison, she’d had to practice holding it in since she didn’t like going out to the latrine with strange guards in the middle of the night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool Hand Luke, Brubaker, The Shawshank Redemption, and many others paint melodramatic pictures of prison life that have some common denominators. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in prison vote either in their correctional facilities or by some version of absentee ballot in their town of previous residence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The prison service supplied me with boxes and crates for packing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Doha could have run to the prison and back in the time it took Yuni to walk to the police station, he swallowed back his impatience and stayed by her side. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, from a dozen places throughout the prison, men would yell “Amcmdla!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can rescue me out of this prison, I will fight in the faction of King Bagdemagus next Tuesday.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why my father spent so many years in prison—he refused to turn in his friend—and I so many years without a father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most families in Salcedo had at least one son or daughter or husband in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had been apart for all the years that I was in prison, Oliver was never far from my thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, I followed the struggle of black Americans against racism, discrimination, and economic inequality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a money-making windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every six months, prisoners were called before the prison board to have their classifications evaluated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to more than fourteen years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that a good prison? I mean, one of the better ones?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Time and again he tried to drive home the idea that crime really begins in the slums, and that prison itself can’t cure it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I entered the prison and saw an older white woman—the correctional officer who managed the visitation yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’re mammoth filing cabinets of human lives, like bees in a honeycomb, crowded and angry at paying rent for boxes that resemble prison cells. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Drug offenses alone account for two-thirds of the rise in the federal prison population and more than half the rise in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But in any case, alone now, at the front gate of Lumumba’s prison house in Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder, then, that most people labeled felons are swept back into prisons not long after their release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although it was not published while I was in prison, it forms the spine of this memoir. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The citadel was their prison, and it was their sanctuary, but for how much longer could it be either? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wish we lived in a fairer worId, where only guilty people went to prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, just two people other than Shin are known to have escaped from any political prison camp in North Korea and made it to the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In prison, there’s no such thing as bailing someone out. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jakob Grimm was one of the foremost philologists, I studied his ‘Grimm’s Law’ in prison—all about consonants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For us, such struggles — for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food — were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected that when guards learned of the escape, they would come for his father and take him back to the underground prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was driven to the front of the prison complex and was brought to another small cinderblock room, where he saw Raleigh, the first representative of the outside world he’d seen since his arrest. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After lunch, Zeitoun was taken from his cell and again handcuffed and brought to the same building near the front gate of the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was led past the prison cells of all the Nazi saboteurs, with the exception of Burger, who already knew about Dasch. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

This is another one of the indignities of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But hopefully he’d get to try my desserts soon, outside of prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Put him in prison, probably.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working for the Soros Foundation, a privately funded philanthropy organization, Goldfarb had been focusing on a very specific health crisis—a hundred thousand inmates in Russian prisons with active TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The scandal, known as Teapot Dome, landed the secretary of the interior in prison. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before coming to prison, Ngendane was perceived as something of a political lightweight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No drinking was a condition of his parole; by getting caught, he had earned a ticket back to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a compromise, I suggested to Lilian that the women spend a fortnight in prison, after which we would bail them out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said when they got him back to Savannah, got him in prison there, they whipped him until a doctor who was standing by watching said, “You will kill him if you strike him again!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald writes back, saying that when I am ready, he can free me from prison. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This entire wing of the prison, they said, held Katrina prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He’d be sent to an adult prison, where the choice of programs was meager. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He said that if he was executed as scheduled, he wanted me to get the prison to play a recording of a hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross,” as he walked to the electric chair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I judge the effectiveness of that job not so much by obedience to rule, for rules can be enforced, but by the humor of the general prison population. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow thought about telling the man some of his theories about prison, but he said nothing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“They said they shot you in Kaduna, then they said they buried you alive in the bush, then they said you escaped, then they said you were in prison in Lagos.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thinking that a clever assignment might help loosen them up, I instructed my students to write a letter to their mothers in prison. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Not only could the material be used to build a prison, the state legislature reasoned, it could be quarried, placed on riverboats, and sold into the indefinite future, helping the prison turn a profit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her diary, she referred to it as “a perfect prison.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Billy dozed, awakened in the prison hospital again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came for me at seven-thirty in the morning and I was driven to the courthouse in the prison van. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Men stood at the windows of the prison, calling out to those who passed by. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This explosive growth resulted in the building of fifty new prisons and the transformation of the Department of Correctional Services into the state’s second-largest employer, after Verizon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had them ring the prison walls and fire down into the yard. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were legally condemned children hidden away in adult prisons, largely unknown and forgotten, preoccupied with surviving in dangerous, terrifying environments with little family support or outside help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1980s, nearly 20 percent of the people in jails and prisons in the United States had served in the military. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be seen and to test the limits of my prison. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The leafless branches of the trees surrounding the prison were skeletal against the iron-hued December sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“And good riddance,” added Reason, “for no matter how beautiful it seems, it’s still nothing but a prison.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Billy and the rest were encouraged to shuffle around their dinky train and into the prison camp. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, does this have something to do with your dad in prison?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aside from figuring out where to sleep, nothing is more worrisome for people leaving prison than figuring out where to work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clary—now married and a father—was ordered back to prison to complete his ten-year term. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Pass me those keys and I’ll handle the rest of those prison cells for you. And thanks!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Currently, Dusty is serving time in a federal prison for bank robbery and will not be released for many years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The judge sentenced him to ninety-nine years in prison. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A guard waved the bus through, and soon they arrived within the prison grounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Huge re-sources are diverted as a result: California, where prisons are already at double capacity, must build a new prison every year to keep up with the flood of new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they’d put you in prison. You don’t want to go to prison.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

You see the view through tree branches as if through prison bars. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The room was as small and square and bare as a prison cell. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer also agreed to serve as a consultant on TB in Russian prisons for the World Bank’s mission to Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Many worry that prison time has become a badge of honor in some communities—“a rite of passage” is the term most often used in the press. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At three in the morning on Billy’s morphine night in prison, a new patient was carried into the hospital by two lusty Englishmen. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z