No man should be judge in his own case.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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.
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.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
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.”
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
