The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Organized crime in America takes in over
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.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
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.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
