incarceration quotes

None of my peers avoided prison. None of ‚em.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

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.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.