Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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.

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.

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

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%.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.