Quotes

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

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.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.