#jails

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

#does #growing #growing up #his #i

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#before #build #city #closed #doors

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

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#courts #enforce #enough #jails #law

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

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

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

#always #been #churches #declaration #faith

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

#former #jails #latter #less #many

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

#change #changed #did #everything #gangs

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

#authority #being #book #going #happen