Oscar Wilde Quotes

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

Court rules do not cause crime.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Within the realm of the law, we have to be as severe as we can. We will not simply give capital punishment to all criminals, but those who deserve it will get it.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.