Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Vices are not crimes.
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.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
