The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
A country is in a bad state, which is
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
