I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
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.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
