243 Quotes About Jail

  • Author J. K. Rowling
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    You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

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  • Author Ja Rule
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    Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

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  • Author Rick Ross
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    If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

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  • Author Rob Reiner
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    Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

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  • Author Smokey Robinson
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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

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  • Author David Suzuki
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    We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

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  • Author Elyn Saks
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    We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

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  • Author Peggy Smith
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    I've never been to jail before. I was married to a lawyer for 31 years. I'm a peaceful person.

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