Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
Behind every crime is a story of sadness.
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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.