It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
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.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
A sick person is a prisoner.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
