Quote by Frank L. Baum

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

— L. Frank Baum

“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength…

— Jack Kerouac

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light…

— James Forman, Jr

“Playing the victim is like surrendering to self-imprisonment.”

— Cynthia Olmedo

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is…

— Oscar Wilde

“Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”

— Havelock Ellis

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

— Anonymous

“How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged…

— Fiona Paul

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin