Paul Hawken Quotes

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

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

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

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

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

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

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

I think most of us are far removed from what goes on in our jails and the system. When I started working on 'Lucknow Central,' it was the first time I gave it some thought.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

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

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

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

The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.

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 have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.