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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

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

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

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.

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.