Quotes

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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 the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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