Quotes

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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!

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

We are prisoners of ideas.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.