I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
