I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
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%.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
