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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
Justice
Political
Political Power
Power
Neighboring
Thousands
Hills
Itself
Very
Jails
Where
Then
Lands
Marches
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis
Dangerous
Other
Our
Obedient
Prisons
Human
Jails
Human Beings
Break
Convert
Beings
Each
Population
Keepers
Designed
Zoo
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
Freedom
Army
Vision
Liberty
Every
Slight
States
Evidence
Must
Citizens
Invade
Casual
Prospect
Armed
Empowered
Am
Camp
Friend
Jails
Turning
Users
Filled
United
United States
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
Lex Luger
Hope
Prison
Past
Few
Other
Ministry
Some
Give
Givers
Share
Mainly
Generous
Involved
Also
Builder
Match
Prisons
Go
Trying
Quite
Donors
Jails
Story
Them
Bridge
Based
When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
Ada Yonath
Angry
Family
Man
Become
Our
Him
Around
How
Terrorists
Years
Friends
Friends And Family
Jails
Create
Number
Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
Bernie Sanders
Education
People
Young
Our
Jobs
More
Invest
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Understands
Clinton
Jails
Young People
Incarceration
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
Build
Before
Closed
Doors
Addition
Lock
City
Nobody
Hinges
Ready
Idly
Were
Getting
The Doors
Jail
Jails
Kansas
Kansas City
Swing
Now
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails are increasingly being used to hold prisoners long term.
Elizabeth Flock
Long
Increasingly
State
Facilities
Headed
Arkansas
Long-Term
Term
County
Reached
Prisoners
Prisons
Just
Jails
Being
Hold
Capacity
Used
Being Used
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
Gillian Armstrong
Ending
Out
Dropping
Schools
Because
Female
Boy
Up
Unemployed
Lack
Lacking
Jails
Skills
I have witnessed and heard countless reports of young black men routinely targeted and recruited by various subversive groups. One of the leading recruiters inside U.S. jails and prisons is none other than Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Black
Men
Islam
Nation
Young
Other
Inside
Various
Leading
Countless
None
Witnessed
Prisons
Heard
Targeted
Louis
Than
Reports
Jails
Subversive
Groups
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
Louis Theroux
You
Journalist
Think
More
Tend
Feel
Safer
Prisons
Than
Jails
Might
Certainly
Appears
Actually
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.
Pete Earley
Health
Suffering
People
Money
Care
Profit
Intervene
Our
Ways
System
Emergencies
Emergency
Hospital
Clearly
React
Health Care
Ineffective
Because
Health Care System
Shelters
Prisons
Continue
Expensive
Jails
Rooms
Cycle
Who
Homeless
Designed
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Polly Toynbee
Single
Overwhelming
Crimes
Given
More
Longer
Jails
Bursting
Sentences
Reason
Why
Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.
Preneet Kaur
Government
Responsible
Indian
Safe
Prisoners
Jails
Pakistani
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
God
Faith
Relationship
Churches
About
Hospitals
Talk
Well
Always
Been
Years
Jails
Declaration
Juvenile
Speaking
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Class
People
Changed
Everything
Criminals
Released
Ukrainian
Real
Prisons
Been
Politically
Representatives
Jails
Middle
Middle Class
While
Filled
Rebellious
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.
Zephyr Teachout
Life
Time
You
Power
Politician
Every
Spend
Visit
Kind
Over
Know
Another
Because
Exercise
Exercising
Prisons
Go
Role
Person
Jails
Should
Choosing
We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.
Chelsea Manning
Work
Education
People
Our
Out
Employment
Housing
Access
Healthcare
Prisons
Queer
Off
Improve
Get
Jails
Streets
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