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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
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.
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
