Quotes

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

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.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

No crime has been without a precedent.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?