I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Vices are not crimes.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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?
