Quotes

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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.

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.

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.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.