Quotes About Prison

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

Before I went to prison, there were not really many blockchain products. It was only bitcoin.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Don't hire a prison consultant.

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.