The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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.
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.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
