No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
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 power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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.
