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Prisons Quotes by Jerry Weller
- No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
- More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.
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- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for… — Dan Benishek
- All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
- Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. — William Blake
- Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and… — Lisa Bonet
- Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
- Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
- Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat
- Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol
- A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves