Quotes

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.