Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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

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

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Going to prison, for me, was like seeing my death before it happened.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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

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.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for 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.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

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

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.