The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
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.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
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.
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.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Man is condemned to be free.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
