#prison

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. ↗

— John Yoo

#any #anything #berg #captured #civilian

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. ↗

— John Yoo

#detention #does #even #facilities #holding

Every invalid is a prisoner. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#invalid #prisoner

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#five #folks #i #most #prison

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#feel #imminent #imminent threat #man #maximum

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#available #came #freedom #had #i

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed