penitentiary system Quotes

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

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

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.