Quotes

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

Vices are not crimes.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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