Quotes

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

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

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

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.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.