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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

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.