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The Constitution guarantees that people incarcerated in jails and prisons may not be detained beyond their release dates, and it is the fundamental duty of the State to ensure that all people in its custody are released on time. – Kristen Clarke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we’ve found are shocking gaps in federal oversight, such as, for example, in 2021 alone, the Department of Justice failed to count nearly 1,000 deaths in jails and prisons nationwide. – Jon Ossoff	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails, we’re headed in the wrong direction. The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters. – Robert Holden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
To run our jails effectively, efficiently and safely, you need to have optimal staffing levels. You need to hire staff to maintain optimal staffing levels, everything that happens through our jails in terms of care, custody and control, inmate services, safety and security runs through staffing levels. – Michael Skelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The reason for the increase is the same as the increase in gun sales over the last two years, increased crime and concerns that police aren’t able to do their job, and the large numbers of inmates released from jails and prisons. – John Lott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is time for all our elected officials who used their advocacy duringthe ‘ Me Too ’ movementto change our laws in New York to ensure sexual predators in our jails face serious criminal charges and are held fully accountable for their crimes. – Benny Boscio Jr.	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The reality is, every post should be manned at all times, having one or two or three unmanned posts is a problem. Having over 50 is a crisis, right now, the inmates are running the jails. – Benny Boscio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences. – Al Sharpton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The first crisis occurred when police vans and buses (with detainees) were driving around Moscow anxiously and jails didn’t let them in. They didn’t know where to put people, some people were brought back to police precincts. Some were standing the whole day inside police vans near the jails. Some got lucky and they were given food and taken to toilets. Some didn’t have luck and they had to pee in a bottle. – Marina Litvinovich	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Jails in this country are petri dishes, it's very difficult in a jail to maintain social distancing. – Toni Preckwinkle	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Even the best run, most humane, most medically up to date jail is a giant petri dish. You have lots and lots of people living in close quarters. Social distancing is virtually impossible, most jails, especially city jails, have a lot of people going in and out. DC is no different. – Greg Lipper	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I truly believe the jails are ticking time bombs. – David Patton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every corner of our state has too many people living on the streets. And the crisis puts stress on public resources, from emergency rooms to jails to public works departments. It takes an unprecedented level of partnership between local, state, and federal government. – Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Homelessness isn't just a concern in our cities, it's a suburban issue and a rural issue, too. No Californian can say that homelessness is someone else's problem, every corner of our state has too many people living on the streets. And the crisis puts stress on public resources, from emergency rooms to jails to public works departments. It takes an unprecedented level of partnership between local, state, and federal government. – Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families. – Kristi Noem	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. – Hubert H. Humphrey	added by Normando 4 years ago
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn	added by Normando 5 years ago
You look every day to see who's locked up in the jails -- it's racial profiling, really. You're looking for odd names : a Carlos Lopez, not a John Smith. – Brent Oxley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Pretty much... from the get-go, from when the policy came out, you look every day to see who's locked up in the jails -- it's racial profiling, really. You're looking for odd names : a Carlos Lopez, not a John Smith. – Brent Oxley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Luis Bracamontes was booked into the jails I run for drug-related convictions, luis Bracamontes was evidently turned over to ICE and had been deported on two occasions. – Joe Arpaio	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If the facility was such a great idea, why are they trying to get out? most of the people that escape, they escape from jails. They escape from prisons, because it’s not a fun place to be at. I can just imagine what might be going through that young man’s head, at 15 years old: ‘What am I doing here?’. – Tony Martinez	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Mommy and me jails are not a solution. – Samantha Bee	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We are told on one hand to focus efforts on criminals but those same folks who want to focus on criminals don’t let us into the county jails, it just defies logic. – Acting ICE Director Tom Homan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I‘m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

The Constitution guarantees that people incarcerated in jails and prisons may not be detained beyond their release dates, and it is the fundamental duty of the State to ensure that all people in its custody are released on time.

– Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we’ve found are shocking gaps in federal oversight, such as, for example, in 2021 alone, the Department of Justice failed to count nearly 1,000 deaths in jails and prisons nationwide.

– Jon Ossoff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails, we’re headed in the wrong direction. The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters.

– Robert Holden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To run our jails effectively, efficiently and safely, you need to have optimal staffing levels. You need to hire staff to maintain optimal staffing levels, everything that happens through our jails in terms of care, custody and control, inmate services, safety and security runs through staffing levels.

– Michael Skelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The reason for the increase is the same as the increase in gun sales over the last two years, increased crime and concerns that police aren’t able to do their job, and the large numbers of inmates released from jails and prisons.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is time for all our elected officials who used their advocacy duringthe ‘ Me Too ’ movementto change our laws in New York to ensure sexual predators in our jails face serious criminal charges and are held fully accountable for their crimes.

– Benny Boscio Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reality is, every post should be manned at all times, having one or two or three unmanned posts is a problem. Having over 50 is a crisis, right now, the inmates are running the jails.

– Benny Boscio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences.

– Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The first crisis occurred when police vans and buses (with detainees) were driving around Moscow anxiously and jails didn’t let them in. They didn’t know where to put people, some people were brought back to police precincts. Some were standing the whole day inside police vans near the jails. Some got lucky and they were given food and taken to toilets. Some didn’t have luck and they had to pee in a bottle.

– Marina Litvinovich

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Jails in this country are petri dishes, it's very difficult in a jail to maintain social distancing.

– Toni Preckwinkle

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Even the best run, most humane, most medically up to date jail is a giant petri dish. You have lots and lots of people living in close quarters. Social distancing is virtually impossible, most jails, especially city jails, have a lot of people going in and out. DC is no different.

– Greg Lipper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I truly believe the jails are ticking time bombs.

– David Patton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every corner of our state has too many people living on the streets. And the crisis puts stress on public resources, from emergency rooms to jails to public works departments. It takes an unprecedented level of partnership between local, state, and federal government.

– Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Homelessness isn't just a concern in our cities, it's a suburban issue and a rural issue, too. No Californian can say that homelessness is someone else's problem, every corner of our state has too many people living on the streets. And the crisis puts stress on public resources, from emergency rooms to jails to public works departments. It takes an unprecedented level of partnership between local, state, and federal government.

– Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

– Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

added by Normando
4 years ago

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

– Howard Zinn

added by Normando
5 years ago

You look every day to see who's locked up in the jails -- it's racial profiling, really. You're looking for odd names : a Carlos Lopez, not a John Smith.

– Brent Oxley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Pretty much... from the get-go, from when the policy came out, you look every day to see who's locked up in the jails -- it's racial profiling, really. You're looking for odd names : a Carlos Lopez, not a John Smith.

– Brent Oxley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Luis Bracamontes was booked into the jails I run for drug-related convictions, luis Bracamontes was evidently turned over to ICE and had been deported on two occasions.

– Joe Arpaio

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If the facility was such a great idea, why are they trying to get out? most of the people that escape, they escape from jails. They escape from prisons, because it’s not a fun place to be at. I can just imagine what might be going through that young man’s head, at 15 years old: ‘What am I doing here?’.

– Tony Martinez

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Mommy and me jails are not a solution.

– Samantha Bee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We are told on one hand to focus efforts on criminals but those same folks who want to focus on criminals don’t let us into the county jails, it just defies logic.

– Acting ICE Director Tom Homan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I‘m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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