Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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 severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
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%.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
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.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
