Quotes

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

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

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

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.

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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?

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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