If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or 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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
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.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
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 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
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
