hard

convicts talking

San Quentin's podcast here.

little boys with power

"The intent of hazing is to humiliate, torture, breakdown."
- Hazing Awareness

First day of parole

How to break the ice in an elevator, according to Ellen DeGeneres. 

DUI

"Jail is designed to make you not want to go back there."
- Kiefer Sutherland

optimist

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela

"Alcatraz for Millionaires"

Image source here.

This post tile quotation is by Jack Nicholson on Monaco.

"The Oval Office is the crown jewel of the penal system."
- Harry Truman

Image source here.

"No matter where you are in life there's always more journey ahead."
- Nelson Mandela

comfortable with that

"I taught in jail; people can get better."
- John Waters [born 1946]

ZZzzz

"The worst part of prison is the snoring."

- Dr. Jack Kevorkian [born 1928], Right-To-Die Activist, who spent 8 years in jail

observe and normalize

Panopticon

none but the sufferers themselves can fathom

"I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers; and in guessing at it myself, and in reasoning from what I have seen written upon their faces, and what to my certain knowledge they feel within, I am only the more convinced that there is a depth of terrible endurance in it which none but the sufferers themselves can fathom, and which no man has a right to inflict upon his fellow-creature. I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay."
- remarks of Charles Dickens [1812-1870] in American Notes upon visiting a Philadelphia jail in 1842.