The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
No crime has been without a precedent.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
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.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
