We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Vices are not crimes.
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
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
