Quotes

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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

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

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.