If two people fight on the street, whose
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.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Women have worked hard; starved in
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 are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
I know not whether laws be right, or
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.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
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.
The contagion of crime is like that of
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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
