Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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!
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Justice renders to every one his due.
No crime has been without a precedent.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
