Quotes

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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 never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

No man should be judge in his own case.