Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
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!
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
