It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Oh who is that young sinner with the
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
