To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.