Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
