Kurt Fox

“And what is the difference between twenty years or more in jail and death? Even after he has served the sentence, the man will be always a prisoner, for on his eyes will be tattooed the bars that imprisoned his soul and mortified his flesh, and destroyed his nerves and rotted his bones.”
― Ciro Alegría, La serpiente de oro

“After a year, how many days in it will you never think of again?”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

“I see hope floating stagnant anchored by scorn.” – B.M. Batchelor, “The Mirror”
― Jimmy Santiago Baca, From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings

“I can’t believe the way they’re building prisons. Then they fill ‘em up with damn fools on nickel-and-dime drug cases. They make maniacs of ‘em up there, and then turn them loose on the public. It’s like they were growin’ maniacs in hothouses.”
― Edward Bunker, Dog Eat Dog