Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
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.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
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.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
I know not whether laws be right, or
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.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The best situation of all, and one
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.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
