Quotes About Incarceration

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant factors in reducing the frequency of violent offences.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.

The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

I got all the women and everything I want, but my brother is locked up. I can't leave him behind.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

Nadie, desde fuera de ella, puede imaginar lo que es la vida en una prisión. Uno piensa que, bueno, al menos tendrá horas para leer y pensar, y que el tiempo no pasará tan mal. Pero pasa terriblemente mal. Con una exasperante lentitud.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

In the U.S. there are over two million people locked up, and it takes one million employees and $80 billion in tax dollars to take care of them.

This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same—bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors.

In white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In black America, they are too often used as warehouses to keep minorities off the streets. Otis

In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

In white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In black America, they are too often used as warehouses to keep minorities off the streets.

United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. Here

being nothing more than a prison. As Todd slowed the car, he said, "It looks like one of those

You ever met anyone who's served time in Parchman prison?" "Yes sir. Met a guy in Angola who served time there." "I'm sure he was happy to be out of there." "Yes sir. Said it's the worst place in the country.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.