Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

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.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

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

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.