Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
