{"quotes":[{"text":"When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["jail","prison"],"id":858,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.","author":"Peter T. King","tags":["important","jail","working "],"id":12080,"author_id":"Peter+T.+King"},{"text":"Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail.","author":"Mora Early","tags":["food","jail","jokes","sarcasm"],"id":12983,"author_id":"Mora+Early"},{"text":"The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber.","author":"M.K Gandhi","tags":["jail","sacrifice"],"id":20529,"author_id":"M.K+Gandhi"},{"text":"I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a 'serious' novel.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["experience","growth","hard-times","hardship","jail","jailbird","learning","literature","novels","prison","roman-payne","serious","seriousness"],"id":23955,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.","author":"Paul Beatty","tags":["african-americans","blacks","guilt","incarceration","innocence","jail","justice","justice-system","prison","race-relations"],"id":25037,"author_id":"Paul+Beatty"},{"text":"I began to notice something strange about the nature of incarceration; in particular, its imposition on the minds and bodies of the imprisoned, promoting a number of inmates to take personal responsibility for a system of failure beyond their control—a system built on hiding in plain sight the institutional, historical, and material limits of personal choice….Taking on the failures of a system without critically examining the limits of personal choice often led a number of cellmates to conflate their sense of responsibility with issues beyond their control.--Kalaniopua Young, “From a Native Trans Daughter.","author":"Eric Stanley","tags":["jail","personal-responsibility","prison","systemic-failure","systemic-racism"],"id":61654,"author_id":"Eric+Stanley"},{"text":"Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.","author":"Assegid Habtewold","tags":["desire","imagination","jail","seed","unleash"],"id":61989,"author_id":"Assegid+Habtewold"},{"text":"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.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["crimes","criminal-justice-system","cycle-of-violence","desperation","greed","homelessness","imprisonment","incarceration","jail","justice","poverty","prison","punishment","racism","retribution","unemployment"],"id":66537,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"Mr Judge, Jury \u0026 Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["civilized-behavior","civilized-governance","civilized","civilized","civilized-society","danger","dangerous","dangerous-minds","dangerous-people","dangerous-world","execution","execution","execution","executioner","jail","judge","judgement","judgemental","jury","jury-trials","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prison","society","usa"],"id":69492,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":88,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}