Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
