Bernie Madoff: I Am Happier In Prison Than On The Outside

Bernie Madoff told Barbara Walters in a two hour interview at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina that he is happier in prison than on the outside. He said that he no longer has to live in fear of being arrested and knows that he will die in prison. Walters revealed to "Good Morning America" that in the early days of his incarceration, he had contemplated suicide, but that he no longer thinks about taking his own life. In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," Madoff's wife Ruth said that the pair did attempt suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve in 2008 in the aftermath of Bernie's fraud being exposed. "I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening." Walters said that the couple is now estranged after their son Mark hung himself in his New York apartment in December on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. "He has terrible remorse, he says he knows that he ruined his family," Walters said, adding that Madoff told her that with the help of therapy he does not think about what he has done, but "at night he says he has horrible nightmares." Speaking about his notorious crime, Madoff told Walters that the average person thinks I robbed widows and orphans. I made wealthy people wealthier."