No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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?
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
