Quotes

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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!

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

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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.

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.

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

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

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 shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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