Quotes

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.