Quotes

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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.

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.