Quotes

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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.

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.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Vices are not crimes.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.