Bernard Hopkins speaks on fighting inside Jail
By Johnny Benz (Dec 13, 2007) Doghouse Boxing  
In a recent interview with Bernard Hopkins, conducted by Gareth A. Davies and published by telegraph.co.uk, Hopkins answered many questions. One of the questions Hopkins answered on was what he did to turn around his life and did being locked up in prison and being the penitentiary champion help him.

Davies asked Hopkins, when did Hopkins change his life? Hopkins told the publication: "When I spent five years in the penitentiary. I had a choice in my life: spend it behind bars, or around people who I could love, and who
loved me."

"That's not saying I don't have real close friends from Graterford. I do."

Hopkins added: "It was simple in the end. I studied for, and obtained, my high school diploma and also began to take part in boxing again.

Hopkins, won the national penitentiary middleweight championship three times while in prison was asked if being the penitentiary champion help him?

Hopkins responded with: 

"Definitely. It gave you respect there. Jail has a profound effect on anyone who has been locked up. You can never totally forget."


Hopkins then added: "There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about
prison."







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