Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
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.
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.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
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.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
