Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
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.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Man is condemned to be free.
