Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
No crime has been without a precedent.
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Man is condemned to be free.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
A sick person is a prisoner.
