Quotes

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

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

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.