The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Justice renders to every one his due.
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.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
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 becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
