Heinrich Boll. Possibly History's most eloquent prisoner.

The Jean Genet Page-- Words and Images.

Brendan Behan Worship Page. A teenage IRA member, author of Borstal Boy and The Quare Fellow (a harrowing anti-hanging play that will not remind you of part of the film Let Him Have It), Behan was one of the most entertaining and contradictory inmates ever incarcerated.

Jesus of the Week. Those damned Romans.

Lord Elgin was a Bastard. Never in jail, but perhaps should have been.

William Saroyan. Captured three times in his life.

Alberto Giacometti. Okay, he was a sculptor-- but lots of great writers wrote about him, including Genet, who was really released from prison.