Jack Carroll Quotes

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.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

I should still be in jail.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

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.

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

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

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

I know prisons from the inside.

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.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

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

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.

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.

The world is a penal institution.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers. Americans have a right to go about their lives without worrying about these people being back out on the street. So until we can make sure they're off the street permanently, we have to grit our teeth and put up with the death penalty

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

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.]

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

Prison works.

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

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