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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. -- Horace Mann
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. -- Angela Davis
Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free. -- James Altucher
Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government. -- Preneet Kaur
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. -- Polly Toynbee
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. -- Mike Singletary
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. -- Gillian Armstrong
When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists. -- Ada Yonath
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick. -- Pete Earley
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. -- John Updike
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change. -- Joe Arpaio
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals. -- Thomas R. Insel
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? -- Khalil Gibran
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God. -- Smokey Robinson
I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen. -- Joe Arpaio
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. -- Barbara Deming
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. -- Billy Sunday
Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody. -- Ada Yonath
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. -- Maajid Nawaz
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. -- Pete Earley
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. -- Milton Friedman
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope. -- Lex Luger
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids. -- Flavor Flav
For digital natives, public schools are jails -- Bing Gordon
Is all the world jails and churches? -- Zack de la Rocha
It is better to support schools than jails. -- Mark Twain
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions -- Hillary Clinton
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. -- Steve Earle
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. -- Etgar Keret
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. -- David Gerrold
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada. -- Jane Jacobs
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. -- John Gay
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. -- Oren Moverman
I had a naÃ¯ve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails. -- Patricia McConnell
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. -- Charles Bukowski
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance. -- Jesse Jackson
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life? -- Jeff Ross
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. -- Hillary Clinton
Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally. -- Matt Salmon
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them. -- Richard Wurmbrand
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. -- Hillary Clinton
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. -- Christopher Hitchens
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God -- Smokey Robinson
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss. -- Mahmoud al-Zahar
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party. -- Jane Addams
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux. -- Rodney S. Quinn
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. -- Nelson Mandela
You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail. -- Gene Simmons
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. -- Scott Westerfeld

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