It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
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?
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
