Quotes

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

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.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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 is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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