John Grisham Quotes

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

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I know prisons from the inside.

Prisons are universities of the opposition.

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

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

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

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

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

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted; and by which, during that term, a portion of the prison employment shall be for, and the product thereof be faithfully paid over to, the support of the criminal’s family; and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

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.

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.

I think most of us are far removed from what goes on in our jails and the system. When I started working on 'Lucknow Central,' it was the first time I gave it some thought.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been 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.

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.