Quotes

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Vices are not crimes.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.