We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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%.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
