Quotes

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

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

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of 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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.