A sick person is a prisoner.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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.
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 severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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%.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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.
