If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
No man should be judge in his own case.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
