Prison Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

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.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.