Quotes

No man should be judge in his own case.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

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.

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.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.