Quotes

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Vices are not crimes.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

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