It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
