"A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"
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"Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death."
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"The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country."
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"Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined."
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"I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison."
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"Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think."
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"Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population."
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"As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail."
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"I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
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"Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today."
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"If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree."
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"As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners."
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"Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails."
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"We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside."
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"Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it."
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"If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals."
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"We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace)."
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"I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down."
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"It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people."
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"We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation."
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