Jeanne Woodford Quotes

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

Prison works.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

Bad people should be incarcerated.

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

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

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The end of punishment, therefore, is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. Such punishments, therefore, and such a mode of inflicting them, ought to be chosen, as will make the strongest and most lasting impressions on the minds of others, with the least torment to the body of the criminal