If we look at Houston, which is a very
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.
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.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
If you want total security, go to
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
They were being driven to a prison,
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
