Quote by Mark Thomas

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must…

— Otto Schily

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

— Dolores Ibarruri

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism.…

— Jo Bonner

Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked…

— Charlie Kirk

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

— Sibel Edmonds

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite…

— Jeff Bingaman

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

— Maimonides

There are many innocent people in prison.

— Brian Banks

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

— William O. Douglas

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing…

— James Q. Wilson