Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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.
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.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
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.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
