Quotes

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.