To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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 solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
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.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
