Clearly Quote by Thomas Mellon

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like…

— Jimmy Hoffa

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

— Bertrand Russell

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your…

— Junauda Petrus

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

“I wished them the harshest depths and punishments of hell, all of them, but only because the punishment should fit the crimes. I can’t…

— M. Nova

“It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep…

— Natascha Kampusch

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul,…

— Richard Viguerie

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send us into…

— Hal Duncan

“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are…

— Victor Hugo