Quotes

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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.

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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.

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