Quotes

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

A sick person is a prisoner.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

One crime is everything; two nothing.