It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
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.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
