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[[File:crookmeg 7472.jpg|link=Family Guy|frame|Above: Meg before prison.
{{quote|"''On the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I [[Trope Namer|had to come to prison to be a crook]].''"|[[Anti-Hero|Andy]], from ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''}}
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{{quote|'''Spenser:''' Lot of guys like him in the joint. Sometimes, I suppose, it’s the joint makes them like that. Sometimes being like that gets them into the joint in the first place.}}
* Arguably happens to Jean Verjean at the beginning of ''[[Les Misérables]]''. After being released from a ''very'' long prison term for stealing a loaf of bread (Which wasn't too long until he got it quadrupled for repeated escape attempts), he is unable to find work (Because nobody was willing to hire a thief - at least not at a wage he could live on) and is forced to resort to stealing more valuable goods to survive. An [[It Was a Gift|unexpected act of mercy]] from the first person he robs after starting down this path leads to him undergoing a [[Heel Face Turn]].
* A juvenile delinquent in ''Secret Sea'' by Robb White mentioned "reform school" as part of his backstory. "I learned a lot of things in that school," he said, listing some such as a technique for cheating with unmodified dice. It's debatable whether he's more a [[Street Urchin]] or has become an [[Artful Dodger]] by the time he enters the story.
== Live Action TV ==
* Tobias Beecher in ''[[Oz]]''. Imprisoned for vehicular homicide, {{spoiler|he is a murderer several times over by the end of the series}}.
* On ''[[Homicide: Life
* ''[[Life]]'': When we meet Arthur Tins in season 1, he's a low-rate con artist whom Crews sends to prison. When we see him again in season 2 after he's escaped, he's a hardened criminal who murders one man, robs an armored car and takes a family hostage.
* ''[[Bones]]'': [[Serial Killer]] Howard Epps, possibly. He could be a [[Manipulative Bastard]] all along, or maybe he learned it while on death row. When we first meet Epps, he's claiming to be innocent and trying to get exonerated, but it ends up he just reveals he's killed even more people than previously thought, so they have to keep him alive while they process the new bodies. When he returns in season 2, Epps is even more manipulative and playing serial killer games, leading the team on a merry chase with body parts as clues.
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* In ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|Spider-Man the Animated Series]]'', this is how The Kingpin came to be — originally sent to prison for larcency, after one of his dad's scams went south and his bulk prevented him from following his father up a fire escape. Once he comes out, {{spoiler|he's got 'connections', and uses what he's learned to begin building his criminal empire}}.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Dial Meg for Murder", [[Butt Monkey|Meg]] falls in love with a convict, and goes to jail for harboring him after he escapes. When she comes out, she is a lot meaner and starts fighting back against everyone who mistreated her. By the end of the episode, Brian has to stop her from [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|robbing a convenience store at gunpoint]].
* Wasp, from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', gets falsely arrested as a Decepticon spy in the backstory (shown in a flashback episode). By the time he escapes over half a century later (Cybertronians are long-lived), he's almost [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum-like]] in his insanity.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Static Shock]]''. When D.J. Rock, a corrupt music producer who caters to rappers, is arrested for plagiarizing Rubberband Man's music, he sees an upside to it, saying that some time in jail might improve his "rep" and thus be good for business when he gets out. However, Static has a different opinion, telling him that this case might cause other victims to come forward, meaning that by the time he does get out, his music will be good for nothing but the discount bins.
==Webcomics==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150623025040/http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Sodality_(series) Sodality]'', Celia was a near-perfect little angel, until she got wrongly accused of conspiracy to steal the Earwig armor - which was never even missing in the first place! Furious over being falsely charged for a crime that never happened, she demanded that Darius resign as director of SCALLOP. Apart from her having been saved from Wayne the Vampire by Candi and Dolly, Celia barely even qualified as belonging under SCALLOP's jurisdiction to begin with, so she argued that the whole thing was a senseless kidnapping. This infuriated Darius, who later covered for the corrupt Agent Oisdaat even after the latter ''raped'' Celia. Even though she gets out of jail, Celia finds herself continually stalked and harassed by an untouchable Oisdaat. Until finally, she abandons her Sodality friends and starts working for the Sapphire King - who promises to help her get rid of Oisdaat forever. She is then labeled a fugitive for life, and has to flee to Italy to start over since she's on the hook for playing the bait in a death trap.
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