The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
We are prisoners of ideas.
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.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
