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.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
