Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.
Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.
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.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.