Quotes

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

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.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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.

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.