Quotes

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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.

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

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.