Bernard Kerik Quotes

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

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

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

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

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

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

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Going to prison, for me, was like seeing my death before it happened.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

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.

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

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

The last place I would ever want to go is 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.

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

I should still be in jail.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

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

I really don't like being in jail.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

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