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Quotes About Prison

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.
~ James Traficant
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
~ Barney Frank
I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.
~ Danny Miller
The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.
~ Jeff Ross
President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.
~ Jimmy Fallon
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades
~ Marc Lamont Hill
The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they're now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.
~ Barrett Brown
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.
~ Edward Snowden
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.
~ Frederick Lenz
Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.
~ Ron Baratono
Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
~ Steven Magee
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
~ Lee Trevino
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors
~ Eoin MacNeill
The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
~ Marianne Williamson
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
~ Bryan Stevenson
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
~ Miriam Defensor Santiago
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
~ Jeffrey Archer
I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.
~ Homer
The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
~ Barack Obama
I pulled the boy close to me and said you see that girl, thats my only lil girl. So if you think about huggin or kissin. Remember these words. I aint afraid to go back to prison.
~ Bill Engvall
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
~ Bill Watterson
Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn't get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.
~ Suzie Ivy, Bad Luck Officer