Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
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.
