So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
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 torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Vices are not crimes.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
