Quotes

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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!

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Vices are not crimes.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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!

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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