No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him 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.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
