Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

- Ambrose Bierce

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

- Gary Becker

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

- Henry Rollins

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

- Mark Foley

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

- Roland Emmerich