Bernie Madoff likes being in prison.

Financial swindler Bernard Madoff said that he is happier in prison than he was on the outside because he no longer lives in fear of being arrested and knows he will die in prison, Barbara Walters said on Thursday.

Walters, who spent two hours at the prison with Madoff on October 14, also told “Good Morning America” that Madoff said that while he had contemplated suicide during his early days behind bars but lacked the courage, he never thinks about killing himself now.

If life is so great in the joint, maybe he should encourage his fellow swindlers to join him.