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.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Man is condemned to be free.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
