As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Vices are not crimes.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
