Quotes

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

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

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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.

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

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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.