One crime has to be concealed by another.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
