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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
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.
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%.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
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.
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.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
