We have initiated programs for re-entry
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
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%.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I asked a man in prison once how he
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
