John Dean Quotes

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

I know prisons from the inside.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

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

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

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.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

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