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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
No crime has been without a precedent.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
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?
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Man is condemned to be free.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
