Quotes About Detainment

Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law.

Poles and Russians had been detained in Auschwitz before it became a death camp for Jews,

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.

El-Masri lies under gravel and shingle, with no part of him visible aboveground except his left hand

The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

I really don't like being in jail.

There's nothing good about jail. Having your freedom taken off you... It's nothing to be proud of and it's not any fun no matter how you passed the time.

Constitutionally protected statements, beliefs, and associations are now a crime. Dissidents, even those who break no laws, can be stripped of their rights and imprisoned without due process. It is the legal equivalent of preemptive war. The state can detain and prosecute people not for what they have done, or even for what they are planning to do, but for holding religious or political beliefs that the state deems seditious.

Even the best cellmate on earth cannot change the fact that you are in prison.

And they never let him go.

When they brought Blevins back he sat in the corner and didnt speak. John Grady talked with the old man. His name was Orlando. He didnt know what crime he was accused of. He'd been told he could go when he signed the papers but he couldnt read the papers and no one would read them to him. He didnt know how long he'd been here. Since sometime in the winter. While they were talking the guards came again and the old man shut up.

prison of Peter and Paul

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

The question of a valid parental-child relationship is at the center of how the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services handle detainment. Because of fraudulent documentation, profits to smugglers, and false asylum claims, there is essentially no way to prove or verify adults traveling with children are indeed their parents.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

Meanwhile, she is not being allowed to flee.

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

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

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

You must release me or you will never be released.