The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
He who profits by a crime commits it.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
