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Quotes on convicts, confinement, and the justice system.

One quote is bluntly critical of prison conditions, arguing that convicts have even less room to move than animals do. A different, older quote treats confessed sorcery as deserving the same penance given to someone who convicts himself of murder.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

Quotes by Saint Basil

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Nov 07, 2020

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

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Nov 07, 2020

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Quotes by George Jackson

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Nov 07, 2020

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

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Nov 07, 2020

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

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Nov 07, 2020

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

More recent quotes turn to systemic issues, describing black convicts as victims of an unrighteous order and calling for DNA testing built into the system. See Black and Believe quotes for related themes.

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