As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
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.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
