Huey Newton 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.

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

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.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

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

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The prison is the state writ small.

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.