Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.