A sick person is a prisoner.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
