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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

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