I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Justice renders to every one his due.
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.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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!
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
