Prison Violence Quotes

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

Ninety per cent of prison riots start from stupid wardens.