Quotes

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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