Quotes

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.