It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
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.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
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.
