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.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The contagion of crime is like that of
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.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
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.
I have been studying how I may compare
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.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
