To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
