Prison Quotes

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.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

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

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

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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