Quotes

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.