Quotes

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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.

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.

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

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

No crime has been without a precedent.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.