Quotes

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Vices are not crimes.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.