Quotes

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

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