In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Man is condemned to be free.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
