Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
