The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
