Quotes

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.