We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
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.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
