I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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 object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
