Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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

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

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.