Quotes

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

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

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

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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.

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 idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.