It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
