Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
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.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
