Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
We are prisoners of ideas.
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!
Justice renders to every one his due.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
