Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
