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.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Vices are not crimes.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
