You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
