Quotes

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

I can work for the Lord in or out of 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.

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.