Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Vices are not crimes.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
We are prisoners of ideas.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
