Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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.
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.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
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?
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
