If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Vices are not crimes.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
