Quotes

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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.

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.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.