Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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%.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
