A sick person is a prisoner.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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!
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
