The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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?
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
A country is in a bad state, which is
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.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
