Quotes About Rehabilitation

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.

When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

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

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.

There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.

When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

I talked once with a cabdriver who had spent years in prison. He said he had no idea that the world was something he could be interested in. And then he read a book.

I was cured all right.