Asif Ali Zardari Quotes

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

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

I don’t see how the Justice Department thinks they have a system that works when 50 percent of the [appeals] cases get sent back for fixing…. How does that happen? How in God’s name does that happen? Here in America. How many more cases of wrongful conviction before we can agree that the system … is broken.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

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

I've said many of my friends are in jail; some already died.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

Manditory minimums were almost always excessive, and they made me feel unethical, even dirty.

I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

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

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

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

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

No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

I really don't like being in jail.

Don't hire a prison consultant.