Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Vices are not crimes.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
No crime has been without a precedent.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
