Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
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.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
