Ben Fogle Quotes

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

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

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

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

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

I'm an equal opportunity incarcerator.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

Everybody in Detroit knows somebody who is in prison…. In Detroit, most of us are one incident from being locked up.

My men were caught by the police tonight. I will probably be going to jail.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

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.

Our proclivity for incarceration costs American taxpayers about $80 billion a year. And that doesn’t count the vast indirect costs visited upon the incarcerated, their families and communities.

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

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

I really don't like being in jail.

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