Aware Quote by Dean Winters

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

— Kate Mulgrew

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

— Huey Newton

Prison was a learning experience. I learned to be patient.

— Mark Morrison

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

— Jack Abbott

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

— Ras Kass

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

— Suge Knight

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

— Jeffrey Archer

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

— Suge Knight