If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
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 variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
