It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
