President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.
Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.
If you didn't laugh at Jared Fogle, then you would cry.
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.
I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
