Quotes

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

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

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.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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

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.