If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
