Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Justice renders to every one his due.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
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.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
