Abby Lee Miller Quotes

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

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

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail and rejoin our communities, which is why what happens inside matters to us all.

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

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.