Quotes About Rehabilitation

You might have two years probation and do good for a whole year, and you make one mistake, and you got to start over.

Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.

I did probation for three years.

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain.

I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

Had I not went to jail I may not be alive. My temper was really awful.

When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons. —JENI GREGORY, PHD, LICSW, CCM, CCTP

According to a military doctor, Madsen pronated when he walked.

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We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

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.

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

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Psychotherapy is largely concerned with the debilitating or anti-social consequences of past punishments.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.