No man should be judge in his own case.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Vices are not crimes.
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.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
