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There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

— Tommy Chong

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

— Stedman Graham

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

— Judge Mills Lane

I know prisons from the inside.

— Jose Mujica

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

— Gloria Steinem

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

— Jayson Williams

Prison works.

— Theresa May

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

— Ava DuVernay

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

— Michel Foucault

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

— El DeBarge