Believe Quote by Eugene V. Debs

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put…

— Thomas More

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

— Michael Howard

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

— E. W. Howe

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

— George Gilder

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time…

— Gregory David Roberts

Thieves must sit in prison.

— Vladimir Putin

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

“For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to restrain men from theft. For simple theft is…

— Thomas More

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes…

— Carl Hart