A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
While crime is punished it yet increases.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
