Quotes

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

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

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.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

No man should be judge in his own case.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?