Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
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
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Intellectual despair results in neither
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.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
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.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
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
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
