Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I am certain that nothing has done so
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.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
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
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
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.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
