Quotes

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.