I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
