People come out of prison and aren’t treated like I’ve been treated. I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t violate anybody’s rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead. – Mary Beth Whitehead
I just think it’s shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. – Pat Robertson
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let’s invest in monkey bars. – Darell Hammond
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch. – Craig Charles
I’m still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. – Fred F. Fielding
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. – Mary Harris Jones
I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country. – Fred Korematsu
Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he’s a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama. – Mimi Kennedy
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. – Frank Abagnale
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in. – Emmeline Pankhurst
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there’s available… in America right now. – Merle Haggard
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one’s mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten. – Emmeline Pankhurst
My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. – Paul Watson
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally. – Michael Biehn
I’ve spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem. – Gerry Cooney
It’s time to debate images, especially when someone’s going to prison for downloading them. – David Hockney
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison… Being an American citizen didn’t mean a thing. – Fred Korematsu
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene V. Debs
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father’s words that I was hearing, not the coaches’. ‘I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. – David Icke
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. – Danny Glover
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don’t think very much about those years. 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. – Frank Abagnale