No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
