Quotes About Rehabilitation

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

Prison works.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.