Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

I know prisons from the inside.

The world is a penal institution.

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

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

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

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.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

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

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.

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

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.

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'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

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

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

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.

First we pin the convict's badge on him: then we examine his case.

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.]

Every first year law student learns that sentencing has four goals: retribution, incapicitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

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

I really don't like being in jail.