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.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
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.
Man is condemned to be free.
No man should be judge in his own case.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Justice renders to every one his due.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
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.
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 worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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.
