Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
