Quotes

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.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

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

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.