Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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

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.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.