Quotes About Rehabilitation

I told myself that I needed to clean myself up big time.

I had my both my ACLs repaired in college and I broke my patella, so those were all nine-month ordeals, if not longer.

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.

Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.

Jail sucks all the way around.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

No matter what she said publicly, the principal of North Hammond High did not believe in rehabilitation for the young. It was too expensive, and its results were unreliable. Recidivism was high. Better to accept that with a few exceptions the young were an accursed generation, frontal lobes stunted from video games, cell phones, TV, sex-gratification by the hour. They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future. Equipped with state-of-the-art

We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.

Until I began to see my depression as a constant reminder that I needed to stay close to God, it was simply an annoying pain that plagued me daily. My first step toward rehabilitation was to see my depression as a positive challenge that drew me closer to Christ on a daily basis.

Our system is focused on blame and punishment and not on healing and learning

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

because the thing he hadn't understood then (he was happier not knowing it) was that once you were in prison, you never got out. People treated you like a different person; you tended to backslide, the way people tended to backslide into malaria or bad alcoholism

Powder Valley State Hospital outside of Allentown, nine months before. Powder Valley Hospital, she quickly discovered, specialized in long-term rehabilitation of neurologic trauma. And like King of Prussia, it wasn't far from Scranton.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I always have to work on my flexibility to help my back, and Pilates helps the most.

Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

She eventually got strung out herself, was arrested, took a narcotics number, a never-never number she called it, and had been in and out of prison ever since, on sales and trafficking charges.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

There was a complete rupture in my left calf.

We have to end cash bail.