They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
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.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Justice renders to every one his due.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
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.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
No man should be judge in his own case.
