One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.