Quotes

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

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.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.