The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
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%.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
