Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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.
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.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
