"It is no secret that Jeffrey Epstein was jailed in MCC before his death, this Federal Penitentiary located in the heart of lower Manhattan has a long and notorious history of inhumane treatment that has remained hidden from the public eye for decades."
"The lack of natural light further compounds the psychological impact of the MCC's conditions, days turn into weeks and weeks into months without a glimpse of sunlight."
"The shocking reality is that the horrors of MCC have existed for decades, hidden in plain sight."
"It's very deliberate that Julian's being kept in a maximum-security prison. It's very deliberate that his family has to go through this procedure."
"Prison leads to conditions which increase suicidality and lead to people dying. Prison's a dangerous place."
"Norway’s prisons are often characterized as the ‘nicest’ and ‘most humane’ in the world."
"Lock them up! Throw away the key! Treat them really bad! That’s revenge – it feels good for a while, but eventually you start to hurt everybody in the prison and in the general society because you are just creating more violence and more revenge."
"Federal prisons are very overcrowded, understaffed, sadly sometimes even have to have people like janitors and technicians do some of the rounds."
"Putting somebody into a cage by themselves without human contact 23 hours a day for 10 months before they've been convicted of anything... is designed to break somebody psychologically."
"Only those convicted of the most violent crimes are sent to ADX Florence, where they live their days in solitary confinement under the tightest security restrictions imaginable."
"A civilized society may ask itself whether control unit prisons like Florence and Westville are just tombs for the living dead."
"Being locked up in this subterranean hole might seem like the ultimate deterrent."
"He feels so bad for prisoners who are in solitary confinement."
"Indonesian prisons were not known for luxuries."
"Female and female sexual assault in American prisons is actually three times higher percentage-wise than in male prisons."
"Accounts of humiliating forced stripping, slave labor conditions, and infested food shed light on the appalling state of women behind bars."
"These are folks that showed no remorse. These are people that are being treated quite fairly. These were conditions where they have access to Medical Care 24 hours a day."
"Maybe I was able to escape from some of that stuff unscathed in the long term."
"Prison is not supposed to be a resort but you don't have to be inhumane."
"North Korea's prison camps have been compared to those operated by the Nazis in the Second World War."
"The prisoners are upbeat, by contrast the guards are fat and miserable."
"How could they do this to all these women? Here to be forcefully housed with this serial rapist is extremely callous and abusive."
"There is no privacy in prison. That's a given. But now it's no privacy and no dignity either."
"This is definitely an additional punishment on top of what they've already been sentenced to."
"In North Korea's largest camp, there are 50,000 prisoners."
"Although officially the prison rejected the idea of punishment, the reality was that the prison guards utilized a wide range of torturous punishments."
"Rikers Island: where violence, abuse, and neglect prevail."
"Omnichi Prison: where inmates are treated like seniors."
"Imagine being part of the insurrection, going to jail, and saying 'Sorry, I can only eat organic.'"
"Locking us down as a way to punish the entire prison population."
"We shouldn't be housing our inmates like we are if we're the greatest country in the world."
"Germany does prison right. This might be one of the best prisons I've ever seen."
"They moved him into a dangerous situation so they could have an excuse for putting him in solitary confinement."
"Clyde witnessed horrible things, he saw prisoners beaten to death by guards, he saw men stuffed into tin boxes and left out in the sun to roast, and he saw men arbitrarily killed just because a guard felt like doing it."
"...we should have like way uh way more humane conditions for prisoners."
"The conditions in prison were inhumane."
"Visitation: conditions in this prison are so bad that people would rather take their own lives than continue living under the psychological and physical distress that this location causes."
"It is not the purpose of the prison system to provide holiday camps for prisoners, but it is not the purpose of the prison system to provide physical conditions which degrade and humiliate prisoners and strip away their self-respect."
"El Chapo paints a grim picture of his existence, highlighting the limited privileges and the lack of communication with his attorney."
"Prisoners in this country are desperately uncomfortable and sometimes dying due to the heat."
"We shouldn't be cooking prisoners to death. The end."
"Conditions of the confinement for prisoners were getting worse everywhere."
"This practice was being done against the rules and principles in the prisons act."