Samuel Johnson Quotes

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

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.

My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.