Charles Dickens Quotes

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

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

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

Let there be convenient cages for the committing of unruly vagrants in every ward.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted; and by which, during that term, a portion of the prison employment shall be for, and the product thereof be faithfully paid over to, the support of the criminal’s family; and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

I really don't like being in jail.

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

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

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

I should still be in jail.