We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
