Quotes

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

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.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.