Quotes

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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 worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.