Quotes from Stephen Reid

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

I write out those things no child should ever have been made to know

Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but almost to a man they have first practiced that cruelty on themselves. Prison provides the loneliness that fuels addiction. It is the slaughterhouse for addicts, and all are eventually delivered to its gates.

We are a society impatient with its misfits

The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

There are no children's books in prison.

Don't the Conservatives know that Jesus was soft on crime?

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.