Quotes

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

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

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

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.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.