Prison Guards Quotes:

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

- Lynndie England

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Prison Guards, Prison

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

topic: Mean, Men, Prison Guards, Hangman

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

- Robert Reich

topic: Prison Guards, Security Guards, Growing

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Powerful, Prison Guards, California

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

- Jean Harris

topic: Angel, Atrocities, Prison, Prison Guards

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.

- Rudolf Hoss

topic: Men, Hands, People, Deputies, Detention

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

topic: Captivity, Would Be, Prison, Prison Guards

The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Jobs, Believe, White, Probation, Defense Attorneys

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

- Barry Pepper

topic: Directors, Casting, Snipers, Hard Core, Prison Guards

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

- Maya Angelou

source: 'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Country, Mandela S, Prison Guards