After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.
Susan Burton
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
Peter T. King
LiveWorldPrisonBeenIdealModel
To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.
Varg Vikernes
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I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.
Selenis Leyva
TimePrisonThinkingRememberPlace
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.
Joey Diaz
PrisonKnowKidOutComingJust
It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.
Jermain Defoe
FootballSimpleNegativePrisonEnd
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
ChangePrisonBetterOutSystem
I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
Tina Fey
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Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.
Megyn Kelly
PrisonYearYouPresidentGet
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
Sam Worthington
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I believe God talks to us in mysterious ways. I knew if I did not pay attention to His message, I was going to do life in prison, or I was going to end up dead.
Richard Cabral
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On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
Robert Knepper
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Patrick McGoohan
PrisonQuestionsBurdenOthers
The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.
Marine Le Pen
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I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Jeffrey Archer
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The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.
Malcolm Jenkins
TimePrisonYouCrimeWillPoor
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Lewis Tappan
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Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
PeopleMePrisonLoyalDesertedFew
A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.
Madeline Brewer
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When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.
Kevin Gates
PrisonThoughtYouKnowWantAbout
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
Amy J. Berg
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott
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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
James McGreevey
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