In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
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.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I know not whether laws be right, or
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.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
