Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
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.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Justice renders to every one his due.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
