Quotes

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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.