Quotes

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.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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.

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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.

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