Quotes About The Penal System

#1. I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

Frank Morgan

#2. I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!

Stephen Richards

#3. I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Dean Winters

#4. For example, in the state of California, it is illegal to have sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 18; yet, in the same state, having sex with a dead body (i.e., necrophilia), does not have a specific criminal code within the penal system (Hickey, 2005).

Catherine Purcell

#5. Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

T.I.

#6. I do all I can to let my students feel as normal as possible, as far from institutionalized. I see how easy it is to allow this conveyor belt of incarceration bring them from my facility to an adult detention, often for the rest of their lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

William J. Clinton

#8. Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

Louise Hay

#9. There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.

Mary Beard

#10. It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Will Cuppy

#11. You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline.
He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin.
"For whatever reason," she said softly, "when you are with me, you are
simply Isaac and I am Coral.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#12. Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

Bruce Wilkinson

#13. Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

Michel Foucault

#14. We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#15. What stood in one corner of the cell was disgusting: two empty disinfectant canisters and one well used and well stained piss pot, the sort of chamber pot that people would train their babies to be potty trained on before they would learn to use the toilet.

Stephen Richards

#16. The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out.

Stephen Richards

#17. Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

Phil Kaye

#18. Myths aren't fairy tales or legends - they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries ...

John Geddes

#19. I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws!

Stephen Richards

#20. In Polmont, everyone was acting the hard man and giving it the large. I had to fight or cosh or do something to be accepted. I can tell you, it was better to be in a gang than being on your own, and I'd do anything in Polmont, no questions asked!

Stephen Richards

#21. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Ramana Maharshi

#22. The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.

Stephen Richards

#23. Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home.

Tomas Berdych

#24. Simon and Garfunkel were prophetic. The Sound of Silence certainly applies today with so many people communicating through electronic devices. It isn't uncommon to see kids standing side by side talking without speaking. We bow and pray to the back-lit gods we made.

Mary Russel

#25. A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

Sadat X

#26. I'll tell you, the screws' faces painted an even greater picture than my words can describe. We kept emptying our pots in the hall for two weeks before the screws started emptying our piss pots for us, but this didn't last too long after we started calling them bellhops.

Stephen Richards

#27. Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how.

Helen Macdonald

#28. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.

Stephen Richards

#29. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Stephen Richards

#30. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Stephen Richards

#31. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards