It is true you cannot eat freedom and
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
