Quotes

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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.

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.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.