One crime has to be concealed by another.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
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.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
