Chesa Boudin Quotes

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 grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

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

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.

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 know prisons from the inside.

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

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

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.

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

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

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

To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

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.

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.