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.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Man is condemned to be free.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
