Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
If you want total security, go to
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.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Women have worked hard; starved in
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
They took away my money, my family, and
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!
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
