Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
