The admission he made yesterday, under considerable duress, now releases him from a personal "prison".
His personal prison, La Catedral, was located at the end of a long and windy dirt track where it could be defended from attack by Escobar's enemies.
Progress on offenders' treatment is monitored at monthly meetings between the child's their personal prison officer, education workers, psychiatrist, therapists, substance abuse worker, parents and Youth Offending Team case manager.
A lot of the time I feel like my skin color is like my personal prison, something that I have no control over, for I am judged just because of the way I look.
Imad Khadduri, an Iraqi exile who now lives in Canada, and who was a schoolmate of Chalabi's at a Jesuit academy in Baghdad, told me that Chalabi's grandfather kept his own personal prison, in which he incarcerated serfs who failed to pay taxes or produce wheat.
"The prison staff are really nice," wrote Knox in her personal prison diary, which was eventually published in Italy under the title Amanda and the Others.
When we only think about ourselves we create a personal prison.
Assured that Svetlana would handle it with confidence and fun, Louise's lust is tamed by her own personal prison guard: herself.
