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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.
Source: As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis -
Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
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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.
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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.
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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
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.
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There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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