Prison Quotes

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.