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Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
James Altucher / Entrepreneur
Corporate
Corporate America
Honesty
Entrepreneurs
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Sets
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We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.
Chesa Boudin /
Jails
Prisons
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Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.
Preneet Kaur / Indian Politician
Indian
Jails
Pakistani
Prisoners
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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 / Football Coach
Jobs
Dad
Growing Up
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Prisons
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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Bursting
Crime
Jail
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Reason Why
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Crimes
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Incarceration
Investing
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Hubert H. Humphrey / Former Vice President Of The United States
Enough
Jail
Law
People
Police
Police Law People
By The People
Courts
Enforce
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Supported
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Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Clinton
Incarceration
Education People Young
Invest
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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Understands
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Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
Gillian Armstrong /
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Lacking
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Ending
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Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
Louis Theroux / Television Personality
Feel More Than
Appears
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Prisons
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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 / American Politician
Education
Inspirational
Complement
Former
Latter
School
Less
Must
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Prisons
Schools
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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 /
Angry
Friends And Family
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Terrorists
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We spoke at endless cabinet meetings about the need to stop the flow of money to the families of terrorists and to the terrorists in jails.
Ayelet Shaked / Member Of The Knesset
Flow
Cabinet
Jails
Terrorists
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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 / Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Chains
Changed
Gang
Jail
Policy
Stand
Chain
Gangs
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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 / Journalist
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Dying
Jail
People
Real
Sick
Streets
People Real More
Illnesses
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Prisons
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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 / Political Activist
Zoos
Break
Dangerous
Human Beings
Jail
Obedient
Population
Prison Population
Beings
Convert
Designed
Each
Human
Jails
Other
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I think most of us are far removed from what goes on in our jails and the system. When I started working on 'Lucknow Central,' it was the first time I gave it some thought.
Diana Penty /
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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 /
Caring
Hospitals
Illness
Mental Illness
Caring People Care
Asylum
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Mental
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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 / Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Authority
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Alien
Arrest
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Declaration
Hospitals
Juvenile
God Faith Relationship
Churches
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Speaking
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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 / Novelist
Education
Wisdom
Children
Decided
Father
Founding
School
Strain
Unnatural
Education Parents Children
Equipped
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Parents
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Schools
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We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient?
John Lewis / U.s. Representative
Be Patient
Beaten
Locked
Locked Up
Patient
Policemen
Seeing
Tired
Again
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Our People
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We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Employment
Healthcare
Housing
Streets
Education Work People
Jails
Prisons
Queer
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County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails are increasingly being used to hold prisoners long term.
Elizabeth Flock /
Arkansas
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County
Being Used
Facilities
Headed
Increasingly
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Prisoners
Reached
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The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.
Ian Brown / Musician
Homes
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Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety and their responsibility to taxpayers.
Michelle Lujan Grisham /
Medical Care
Public Safety
Reports
Safety
Undermining
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Ukraine
Class
Criminals
Filled
Jail
Middle Class
Real
Rebellious
Representatives
Ukrainian
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Prisons
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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 /
Custody
Definitions
Terrorist
Unclear
Criminal
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Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying on the DA's office and the jails to deal with. That's really expensive, inhumane and ineffective.
Chesa Boudin /
Air
Expensive
Homelessness
Illness
Inhumane
Mental Illness
Office
Open
Deal
Ineffective
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Relying
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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 /
Doubt
Jail
No Doubt
Troublesome
Trying
Conspicuously
Deter
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Generally
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Speaking
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Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.
Eric Schneiderman / New York Attorney General
Bail
Guilt
Trapped
Unjust
Await
Charged
Island
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Unable
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As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and patrols - to law and order, meted out discriminately.
Annie Lowrey /
Detention
Drones
Law And Order
Armored
Guns
Courts
Facilities
Jails
Prisons
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The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental health services. It should happen elsewhere with no police and no judges and no juries and no jails.
Ted Wheeler /
Health
Addiction
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Elsewhere
Health Services
Mental Health
Police
Right Place
Should
First
Criminal
Happen
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Judges
Place
Mental
Right
Provide
Resort
Services
System
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I have witnessed and heard countless reports of young black men routinely targeted and recruited by various subversive groups. One of the leading recruiters inside U.S. jails and prisons is none other than Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Jesse Lee Peterson /
Islam
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Subversive
Louis
Countless
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Prisons
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Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.
Zephyr Teachout / Law Professor
Life Time Power
Choosing
Exercising
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Prisons
Visit
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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 / Musician
Advantage
Gettin
Jails
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski / Poet
Evident
Paper
Beside
Carve
Jails
Readings
Sheet
Walls
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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 / Economist
Casual
Citizens
Empowered
Evidence
Filled
Liberty
United States
Users
Vision
Armed
Camp
Turning
Invade
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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 / Political Activist
Attempting
Conscience
Egypt
Prisoner
Torture
Convicted
Governments
Jails
Overthrow
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Subjected
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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 /
Builder
Donors
Generous
Involved
Ministry
Prison
Share
Based
Bridge
Givers
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Mainly
Match
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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.
Anand Gopal /
Afghanistan
Bases
Detention
Military Bases
Nine
Suspects
First Step
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Officially
Prisons
Sent
Sites
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The status quo tough-on-crime policies of the '90s and 2000s are not working and are not popular. And it provides me with hope about the possibilities for San Francisco and this whole country in terms of moving away from our dependence on prisons and jails to solve social problems.
Chesa Boudin /
Dependence
Moving Away
San Francisco
Social Problems
Status Quo
Francisco
Jails
Possibilities
Prisons
Quo
San
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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 / Journalist
Health
Care
Emergencies
Expensive
Health Care
Health Care System
Homeless
Profit
Rooms
Suffering
Because
Health Money Care
Clearly
Continue
Cycle
Designed
Hospital
Ineffective
Intervene
Jails
Prisons
React
Shelters
System
Ways
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Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them there were 'indentured laborers,' taken out of jails in England and Scotland and so forth and brought to the colonies to work out their terms in the fields and then be set free.
Lorne Greene /
Laborers
Scotland
Colonies
Forth
Jails
Slaves
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Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Corners
Homeless
Loss
Marriage Equality
Momentum
Buildings
Houses
Jails
Queer
Shelters
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