The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
No crime has been without a precedent.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
