It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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 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.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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 just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
