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Mahatma Gandhi shared his jail experience in these words: “Men in prison are “civilly dead” and have no claim to any say in policy”, [Mahatma Gandhi shared his jail experience in different issues of Young India. Also available in : Mahatma Gandhi, “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”, New Delhi : Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India (1969).]. Nelson Mandela, the great fighter against apartheid, described his prison life in the following words: "No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jail. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones”, [Nelson Mandela in his book, “Long Walk to Freedom”.

Citation : Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Little Brown and Company, (1994), p.23]. An American journalist by name Mumia Abu Jamal said the following about his prison life: “Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.”. [Mumia Abu Jamal in his book, “Live from Death Row”.

Citation : Mumia Abu Jamal, Live from Death Row, ed. Addison Wesley