Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
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.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Man is condemned to be free.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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?
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
