Quotes

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Vices are not crimes.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

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.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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%.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.