A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
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.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
