I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
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.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
