Probation Quotes

Non-custodial sentences are certainly something to look at, more support in the community rather than within prisons is something we have to look at. There will of course still be women who need to be in prison, serious offenders, but I think there is scope to look at that number and I think that number could come down.

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.

I'm a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

First we pin the convict's badge on him: then we examine his case.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arresting charge.

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.

In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

My father was jailed off and on for seven years.

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison on any given day, but also all those who are in jail, on probation or parole, as well as all those who are just months away from being locked up again because they are unable to find work or housing due to their criminal record.

The newest "fad" of the penologists is "indeterminate sentences".... This plan ... will work first rate if God will agree to act as the discharging officer. It is hardly likely, though, that he would accept the position: he has long been out of politics.

I had an opportunity to work for the US Department of Probation in Buffalo.

Of all the remedies a civilized society uses to punish people for committing a crime, I don't think killing people is one of them.

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.