A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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!
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.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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.
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
