Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
One should respect public opinion
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
