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.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
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.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
If two people fight on the street, whose
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Educate your children to self-control,
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.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
The only effect of public punishment is
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.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
