The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We have our own system, ... and
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Organized crime in America takes in over
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
