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It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

Jeff Cooper

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Appears Due Higher Incarceration Inside Kalashnikov Murder Must Outside Prisoners Prisons Rate Rifles Ten Ten Times Than Those Times

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Jeff Cooper
American - Celebrity
May 10, 1920 - September 25, 2006

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per cent of the adult population, seven times the incarceration rate of Canada or any Western European country.

Peter Moskos

Certainly the automatic Kalashnikov's ease of use and durability make it desirable for all sorts of people up to no good. But rifles are rifles - there are many other choices out there. You see the Kalashnikov almost everywhere there is fighting because there are so many of them.

C. J. Chivers

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.

Jean Genet

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Lucy Freeman

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John Powell

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

Jim Inhofe

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

Susan Burton

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

Bill Vaughan

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Oscar Wilde

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.

George Pelecanos

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

Louis Theroux

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

Sam Branson

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Aung San Suu Kyi

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

Jonathan Kozol

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

Yanar Mohammed

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Eric Stonestreet

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