Quotes

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.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

No crime has been without a precedent.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

No man should be judge in his own case.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.