Therefore, even though I was in prison, I felt that I was respected by prisoners and staff alike.
My chest was concave when I was a child, but if you look closely, this is true of most children, and the weight lifting I did in prison helped with that, and while I don't actually have a barrel chest, I might have a half barrel.
He and I were in prison together in Edgefield, SC from August 2001 until my release in September 2002.
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When I was in prison, the most popular TV show among the inmates was COPS. Believe it or not, there was no greater joy for an inmate than seeing someone else who was in more trouble than they were.
In May 2001, I had been in prison for about two months and had started a few positive routines.
Since I've been in prison and out, I've been forced to grow up.
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I, Sam Pulsifer, am the man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Massachusetts, and who in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison and, as letters from scholars of American literature tell me, for which I will continue to pay a high price long into the not-so-sweet hereafter.
While I was in Edgefield Federal Prison Camp, many of us white-collar felons taught classes to the other inmates.
And I did meet in my prison journey quite a lot of double Richards, people who were bitter against judges, juries, witnesses and so on, and they went on, as it were, serving their sentence twice.
While in prison, I constantly strive to forgive, but I cannot forget.
Patarei, built as a sea fortress under Russian tsar Nicholas I in 1840, but served as a prison from 1920 to 2005.
Mlilwana says he has received death threats in prison: "I expect any day I will be dead, but before I die I will make sure everything is known, " he told the newspaper.
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But having sipped a tiny mouthful of the half-fermented vintage - which will be called The Manuscript, in reference to the story about Mr Mandela burying his autobiography in the prison garden - I can tell you it tastes just fine.
Of course, it is easy to write that sitting behind a comfortable desk, and not, for example, in a remand prison, but I allow myself to take it to its logical conclusion.
In Edgefield federal prison, where I was housed for a few years, the procedure for informing an inmate of the death of a family member was intended to provide safety for the inmate and those in the prison.
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"When the sentencing was read, I didn't understand what was happening and even now it seems impossible and still I don't understand why I was convicted, " he said in a prison interview through his lawyer the week after the sentencing.
But even in the darker places - among the poorest of the newly poor in the motels outside Las Vegas, for instance, or among the inmates of a tough young offenders prison in Jackson, Mississippi - I always found a faith in the idea that something, something American, could counter the desperate circumstances people were in.
And also it gives you an opportunity, and I think Jeffrey will seize this, to say something about prison life, prison reform, changes needed in the system and to have that voice heard - so I think it cuts both ways.
On September 11, 2001, I was sitting in Cell Block D-1 in Edgefield Federal Prison Camp in Edgefield, SC.
"However, that is six weeks away and I am concerned about the conditions that she is in in this prison, " her mother said.
So I asked around to see if there was a music ward in the prison.
"I have found evidence allegedly suggesting the fault of elements in the Israel Prison Service, " said the judge.
I'm just going crazy worrying about him locked up in a prison cell.
The Prison Service has instituted an organisation to look after women in prison, which they didn't have when I took over, and that means that their interests are now being looked after better.
In discussion with prison officials, Loughner has said, "I'll never get out, " Pietz testified.
But he must have known that Cash sang "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" in Folsom Prison Blues.
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Recently, I met a man who had spent more than five years in isolation at a prison in the Boston suburb of Walpole, Massachusetts, not far from my home.
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