Frank Herbert Quotes

The primary contact between Black men and the government today is the prison system.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

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

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.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.