Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
