Detaining Quote by Bill Foster

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

— Robert Bourassa

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how…

— Antonio Guterres

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions… Under these provisions, the country in which the…

— Kathleen Brown

We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when they return…

— Wes Moore

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

— Bill Gates

See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn't just unfair to those people and those who love them. It is,…

— Kat Timpf

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

— James Forman, Jr

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

Uncontrolled migration is a matter of national security, fairness to taxpayers, safety for those who make lethally dangerous journeys in the hands of gangsters,…

— Suella Braverman

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that…

— Greg Boyle