Quotes

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.