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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.

The world is a penal institution.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.