Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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!
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
