Prison Quotes - Page 20

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

I would prefer to get lashed rather than go to prison.

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would have to be over a generation. But certainly, yeah, white collar crime.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan agreement that it has to change, but the question is how. I don't know how.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.