Prison; Imprisonment

We make mistakes. And we pay for them, sometimes quite dearly. Does this mean that we should accept that we have, in effect, "lost" a portion of our life? What about someone serving a life sentence in prison?

Nachmanson turned to me, his face red with rage: “Forget that you are Schneersohn, the distinguished bogamolnik. You are now a simple person who is being punished for your flagrant acts against the proletariat. Now you will pay for everything . . .”

Imprisonment is a fate worse than death, out of which the truly righteous squeeze an elixir more potent than life

To allow a person to live, and yet to deprive him of living, is inhumane

To successfully escape from prison, you need someone on the outside pulling for you. Take it from Jacob, who wouldn't be found dead in Egypt.

There are fifty states in the U.S., said the Rebbe, and all but one allowed Jewish inmates to light Chanukah candles. “Would you believe it? It is only here, in New York State, that prisoners cannot light menorahs for Chanukah!”

In prison, you lose your identity. You can't be a thief when you aren't stealing; you can't be a drug dealer when you aren't dealing. You have no status in the underworld and no status in the real world

The author's experiences with prison inmates leads him to think that criminals aren't the only ones who are doing time...

Mitzvot for the incarcerated souls...in and out of prison

"And proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants..." (Leviticus 25:10). Perhaps because liberty is so highly valued in today's society, deprivation of liberty is considered the ultimate punishment. And so the prison system has become the ...