I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.