If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
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.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
