Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
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
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I can tell you this on a stack of
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.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
There are few better measures of the
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.
