Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
