Quotes

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

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

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.