Quotes

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.