America is the land of the second chance
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.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
