Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Man is condemned to be free.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
