Quotes About Rehabilitation

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I have a bit of a dodgy back so I'm trying my best to to keep it strong. Lots of squats and dead lifting.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

In the U.S. there are over two million people locked up, and it takes one million employees and $80 billion in tax dollars to take care of them.

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

You ever met anyone who's served time in Parchman prison?" "Yes sir. Met a guy in Angola who served time there." "I'm sure he was happy to be out of there." "Yes sir. Said it's the worst place in the country.

facility to address the weakness in his left side. He cannot raise his left hand to his face, nor can he walk without a cane. Ten days after surgery, he is discharged and taken home. He is instructed to return to the rehab facility three times

The last of a train of psychiatrists would claim to have rehabilitated her, but Pooh Percy may simply have emerged from analysis—and a number of institutions—too thoroughly bored with rehabilitation to be violent anymore.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Non subisco mai l'autorità delle perturbazioni atmosferiche né delle divisioni convenzionali del tempo. Sarei lieto di riabilitare l'uso della pipa d'oppio e del kriss malese, ma ignoro quello di quegli strumenti infinitamente più perniciosi e d'altronde piattamente borghesi, l'orologio e l'ombrello.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

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.

But political passions are like all the rest, they do not last. New generations arise which no longer understand them; even the generation that experienced them changes, experiences new political passions which, not being modelled exactly upon their predecessors, rehabilitate some of the excluded, the reason for exclusion having altered.

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

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.