Quotes

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.