Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
I know not whether laws be right, or
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.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
And while God had work for Paul, he
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
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.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
