243 Quotes About Jail

  • Author James McGreevey
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    I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

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  • Author Kate Millett
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    [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

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  • Author Nelson Mandela
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    When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

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  • Author Patricia McConnell
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    I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

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  • Author Richelle Mead
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    You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

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  • Author Ricky Martin
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    Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

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