I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
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.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
No man should be judge in his own case.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
