Quotes

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

No man should be judge in his own case.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

We are prisoners of ideas.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Crimes generally punish themselves.