Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
