Quotes

Man is condemned to be free.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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.

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

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.

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.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

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.

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.