It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
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.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
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
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
