#jail

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#criminal-justice-system #cycle-of-violence #desperation #greed #homelessness

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail. ↗

— Christine Warren

#walker #werewolves #werewolves

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ↗

— Dave Barry

#because #citizens #cooperate #duty #feel

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#feel #inside #jailed #like #prisoner

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#get #jail #know #sentence #want

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#got #i #jail #kind #like

I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#anymore #best #capture #chase #contribute

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#exciting #exciting thing #happened #jail #me

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#illegal #jail #rock #rock and roll #roll