Quotes

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

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.

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

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

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

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

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.