While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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.
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.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
No man should be judge in his own case.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
We are prisoners of ideas.
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.
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.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
