In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
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.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
