On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
A sick person is a prisoner.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
