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.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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.
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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
