It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
