Quotes

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.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.