Quotes

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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