But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons -… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based… — Lex Luger Copy Share Image
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government. — Preneet Kaur 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
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay Copy Share Image
I've been quite fortunate to visit juvenile detention centers in Australia, jails in Western Australia. To be able to go out there… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
