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.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Oh who is that young sinner with the
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
