We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Governments have tried to stop crime
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Oh who is that young sinner with the
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
