It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Man is condemned to be free.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
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.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
