The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
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The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.