I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
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.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
