“Prison is a society within a society. It’s a reflection of life in the streets. The jargon may be different, but we think and feel the same as on the streets and we recreate it in prison.”
As quoted in the book Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=oEKSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq about Piñero’s views regarding prison culture
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Miguel Piñero 3
Puerto Rican writer 1946–1988Related quotes
“I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.”
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
The House of the Dead (1862) as translated by Constance Garnett; as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 210 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA210
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 2, Simplicity, p. 7.

1960s, The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement (1967)

Source: The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996, p.4