Prisons Quotes
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.
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Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.
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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.
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Prisons aren't safe for anyone, and that's the key issue
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
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And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.
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For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.
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We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons
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The darkest prisons were those of the mind.
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We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.
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Are there no prisons?
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When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
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The prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of course, and effectively, but overall, with its checkpointed and its walls and its prisons and its permits, it functioned as a giant humiliation machine, a complex and sophisticated mechanism for the production of human despair.
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
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Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
