Quotes

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Vices are not crimes.

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Justice renders to every one his due.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.