I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
No crime has been without a precedent.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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!
Justice renders to every one his due.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
