Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.