Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
A sick person is a prisoner.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
