No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
