So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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 power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
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.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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 just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
