Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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 was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
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.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
