Quotes About Detention

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

nos detiene a veces lo que no nos importa—

Everything a detainee says is classified. Detainees cannot talk to you. They cannot talk to anyone. They cannot challenge, in a meaningful way, their detention. All that is left is for people who survived Guantanamo Bay to speak for people who are left behind, and speak for those who are in so many Guantanamos, plural, in my part of the world.

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

I sit on my narrow bunk and caress my long yellow toenails and stare at my walls.

Just keep moving! we're almost there. almost where? Juno chuckled. all roads lead there child. you should know that detention? Percy asked. Rome, child, the old woman said. Rome

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.

So many of our businesses rely on green card holders - how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they'll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting him each weekend. That instilled in me the value of taking care of each other even if the systems aren't working in your favor.

At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800.

Medan Luna och jag långsamt gick tillbaka till cellen torkade den manliga våta saliven på min kind. Jag kunde känna fläcken i ansiktet i flera timmar efteråt, som om hans kyss hade lämnat ett märke på mig. Att få en kyss av en man i ett kvinnofängelse är en gåva som slår alla födelsedagspresenter och julklappar. Det är bättre än en rosen bukett. Det är bättre än en varm dusch

less than an hour ago, all I'd wanted was detention. Now, I was nominated for homecoming court and going to the big dance with the hottest guy in school. Somewhere out there, God was laughing at me. I was sure of it.

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

And the girl who was there with them, Kaylie Rooney, she'd just gotten out of juvenile detention for arson. It was easier to deflect blame toward her than to try to pin it on nature.

I count all the way to sixty, a stupid smile plastered on my stupid face. I will not get detention. I will not get expelled. I will be good. I will be quiet. I will be still.

On November 13, 2005, as I was flying into Moscow from a weekend away, I was stopped at Sheremetyevo airport, detained for 15 hours, deported, and declared a threat to national security.

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

We need deportation centres.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

I was in detention a lot.