Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
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.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
