The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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 idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There's no greater threat to our
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.
