Quotes

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

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 solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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.

We are prisoners of ideas.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

No man should be judge in his own case.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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