The first time my dad ever heard my mixtape it was 'Summer's Eve,' and he was fresh out of jail. And he'd be in jail for like damn near two years.
Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.
I can confirm that I have been released from prison.
It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.
I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.
It would be very dangerous and unwise to proceed with the Senate Judiciary bill, which would lead to the release of thousands of violent felons.
Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.
I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'
Come look at the television. Nelson Mandela is being released from prison in South Africa. This is the most important event in your lifetime.
People are released from prison so unprepared. They give you $200. We call it gate money. And you have to pay for a bus ticket back to L.A. You get off the Greyhound bus, downtown Skid Row, and you're supposed to make a life from that.
I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.
