Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
