Quotes

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.