Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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.

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

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Man is condemned to be free.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.