Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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 power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
