They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
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.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
