Quotes

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 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.

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.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.