Quotes

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

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

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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.