No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
