Quotes

Justice renders to every one his due.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

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.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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