Ability Quote by Jeff Bingaman

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs…

— Matteo Salvini

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter…

— Mary B. Harris

“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.”

— Pius Langa

“It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free”

— Mimi Novic

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without…

— Anonymous

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

— Thomas Jefferson

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

— Scott Turow

Locking people up without reducing the risk of them committing new crimes against new victims the minute they get out does not make for…

— Kenneth Clarke

“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