When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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 better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
