Detention Quote by Dana Perino

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

— Horace

Pretrial detentions of any length can have devastating consequences for a defendant and their families, and therefore should be imposed with great care.

— Chris Sununu

“Law enforcement responding with silence regarding crimes reported by the public is a form of mistreatment.”

— Steven Magee

“The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more…

— V.G. Hiemstra

The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back…

— Patrick McGorry

“Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in…

— Michelle Alexander

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who…

— Rudolf Hoss

It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to…

— Erik Larson

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

— Patricia McConnell

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

— Sibel Edmonds

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

— Christopher Hitchens