Quotes

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.