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I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged.

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

Andy Dufresne

The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.

Magnolia

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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I do not believe there is any sort of distinction between the real moral conditions of the people in and out of jail. One is just as good as the other.... I do not believe that people are in jail because they deserve to be. They are in jail simply because they cannot avoid it on account of circumstances which are entirely beyond their control and for which they are in no way responsible.

Clarence S. Darrow

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Darrow, Clarence. "Crime and Criminals." 1902, Cook County Jail, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Darrow, Clarence. "Crime and Criminals." Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom, edited by Arthur Weinberg. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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I'm tellin' you, these walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Stagecoach

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Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

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Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme, Strong Heart Productions, 1991.

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There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

In the Heat of the Night

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In the Heat of the Night. Directed by Norman Jewison. The Mirisch Corporation, 1967.

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I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.

25th Hour

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25th Hour. Directed by Spike Lee. Touchstone Pictures/25th Hour Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Gamut Films/Industry Entertainment, 2002.

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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

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