One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Prison continues, on those who are
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
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.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
