I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
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I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would… — Charles Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Write down your fucking statement here or in a jail cell. Doesn’t matter to me either way,” he snarled as he reared… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Do not fear ARREST. Why? Because, there is REST at the end of each AR"REST"; either in jail or in the grave.… — Opoong Amankwaa Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
Whatever I plan on working on when I come out, I lan on working on while Im in jail. I have a… — Big Meech Copy Share Image
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Ye Chand Yahaan kuch chattanon se fisal raha hai... Sayad tumhare yaha kisi daal se jhool raha hoga. Chalo kuch to hai… — Saket Assertive Copy Share Image
We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour Police Station at two in… — Steve Vernon Copy Share Image
“It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
![“I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.” quote by Johnny Cash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/johnny-cash-1517_accused_i-ve-never-been-accused-of-a-felony-i-ne_2579150.jpg)
![“I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in…” quote by Nancy Grace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/nancy-grace-9244_bad-guy_i-would-wipe-my-tears-and-walk-out-of-th_562311.jpg)
