Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

I should still be in jail.

The world is a penal institution.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

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.

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

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

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

Bad people should be incarcerated.

Prison works.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

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

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.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

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

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

My pop did a little time.