Quotes

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

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

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.