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.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
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.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
