A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.