I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
