Inmate Quotations

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Ninety percent of the evidence is going to be the testimony of these 42 inmate witnesses, and every single one will be getting something.

One inmate has a slash wound that goes from his ear all the way over to his mouth. It appears he was attacked by a razor blade attached to a toothbrush or a comb.

She said she thought inmate Lawson had a bad rap in life and she was doing a kindness (by helping him escape),

He was a DUI offender and wearing inmate work clothes,

He is an extremely well-liked, well-respected, model inmate in the system by the authorities as well as by the inmates. Some of the inmates have come to sympathize with him because of his special restrictions.

We haven't had an inmate death in Maine involving another inmate in years, 1990 was the last one.

We do not believe the staff- inmate ratio changes can be interpreted to mean our prisons are less safe. Additional medium security and minimum-security capacity, advances in building design, technology - all of these factors come into play with regard to the ratio numbers.

The reality is that an inmate can get out if they so desire, but what keeps them there is the possibility of sanctions.

The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate testimony doesn't have that great a ring of credibility.

This scenario has been playing out itself over and over. Here there was room for a balance between the personal interests of an inmate and the public's interest in keeping a facility safe and secure.

When a sheriff has an inmate who's escaped and committed capital murder ... you should have that guy in lock down 24/7.

We've been working extremely hard to enhance the level of care provided to inmate patients in Delaware.

When I was wearing that green outfit (as an inmate in the county jail) I would always look forward to that little man with the big accordion.

You have to gauge the risk to the inmate versus the risk to the inmate and officers when they go in to restrain him. This appears to be appropriate.

I've been doing prison monitoring for many years, and the consistency of the complaints indicates that there was a serious problem at Jena, ... Just about every inmate who was interviewed said they saw someone else abused, or were abused themselves.

We've received numerous complaints from inmate family members who have alleged they paid for services they did not receive. We have an active criminal investigation open in this matter.

They're trying to insinuate this was done politically. None of them would ever let an inmate out of jail to help me. I would never sacrifice anybody for this election. This is total Cook County political bull----.

You're constantly putting out fires, dealing with one crisis after another, so after a period of time, when inmate suicides are no longer a daily concern or a daily crisis, then a system will turn to something else that happens to be on the front burner.

I have no doubt that every inmate nearing execution will glom onto this. But I can't imagine the Supreme Court requiring a state to do something that can't be done.

TAPD officers responded to an inmate in need of an ambulance. Initial reports indicate he was involved in an altercation with another inmate and became unresponsive several hours later.

Not only will it mean this inmate will very likely be executed, but it also would make it much harder for other inmates to challenge executions based on the method of execution.

It's your worst nightmare. It's tough. Any seasoned inmate will tell you lockdown is worse.

Anytime an inmate escapes, it's certainly a serious situation, ... There are numerous problems that challenge Alabama's correction system, and these problems have built up over several decades. That's why Gov. Riley created a task force to review our state's corrections system and policies.

The information and tips we receive that leads to inmate recoveries is invaluable. It's prohibitive for us to search every probate court record to track down these things down. We don't have the recourses so we rely on information from others. It's not uncommon for an officer of the court to contact us in these situations. But the size of the assets recovered in this case does make it somewhat unusual.

There was no weapon involved. There was some initial erroneous information, but every inmate was interviewed and searched. Nothing was found.

An African-American inmate walked up to a white inmate and basically said hello. And the Latino inmates took umbrage with the tone of the salutation.