Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Since 1957, black people have
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
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.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Prison continues, on those who are
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
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.
