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.
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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.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
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.
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
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.
One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
Prison works.
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.
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