Quotes

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Man is condemned to be free.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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!

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.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.