I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
We are prisoners of ideas.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
