Quotes

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

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

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

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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.

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