Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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 reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Since 1957, black people have
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
