Prison Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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.

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.