Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Vices are not crimes.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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.

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.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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.

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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.