“Prison is predicated on the idea of social & physical isolation from society. When you can’t hear the voices or listen to the stories of those incarcerated it’s easy to make them into something they’re not.”— Clint Smith, twitter.com
“A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!”— Jules Verne, amazon.com