Quotes

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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 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.