One crime has to be concealed by another.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
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.
