The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
