Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
If you want total security, go to
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 law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
I have been studying how I may compare
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.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
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.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
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!
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
They were being driven to a prison,
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!
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
