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.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
No crime has been without a precedent.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
