Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

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

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.