It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Vices are not crimes.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or 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.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
