The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Prison continues, on those who are
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
