The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
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.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
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.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
