The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
No crime has been without a precedent.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
Vices are not crimes.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
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
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
