“Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.”
Daniel Brodsky
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.”
Arturo Alvarez
“Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, some are in jail or prison for robbing or murdering somebody. So if they're here to help us, I'm thankful for that.”
Crystal Moore
“That's the real shame. Society is not well-served by sending a convict to a penitentiary who needs mental-health care.”
“One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary -- that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about,”
Wayne LaPierre
“My father and I met Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary in 1933. We came there looking for the roots of American black song, and we certainly found them with Lead Belly.”
Alan Lomax
