Quotes About Rehabilitation

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

I'm a strong believer in second chances.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.

People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We've seen what happens without it: they commit more crimes and return to jail, which is worse for everyone.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it's very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.

We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.

At any given time in the U.S. penal system, at least half the inmate population have been diagnosed with some kind of mental illness.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."

I wasn't old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he'd never have to love her again.

Then Arif was allowed to enter Care Rehabilitation, the Kingdom's response to 9/11, after fifteen of the nineteen hijackers turned out to be Saudis.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.