In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

fitting in is for losers. said the friend to the other friend, and the other friend said yeah and that's why prison is so crowded.

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

La joie réside au plus intime de l'âme; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

People put bars on their windows to keep themselves safe, and I say why not just commit a felony and go to prison? Plenty of bars there.


The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cellsFor a long time...And, if we get out,We lug them with us on our shoulders,Like a porter with a chest of goods.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you're the fucking criminal.