A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
