243 Quotes About Jail

  • Author William F. Buckley, Jr.
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    Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

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  • Author Chuck Klosterman
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    People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

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  • Author Ed Koch
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    Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

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  • Author Ray Lewis
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    You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

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  • Author Stephen Leacock
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    You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

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  • Author Tom Lehrer
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    And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

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  • Author Tommy Lee
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    It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

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  • Author Charles Manson
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    I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

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