Quotes

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

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.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.