In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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 guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Man is condemned to be free.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
