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Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to run drugs, you are going to do time in jail.

Andrew Arrington

Long before the new jail is built, with the displacement of the inmates from the stockade, we are going to be at overcapacity. So, we are going to ask the board (county commissioners) to look at alternatives to incarceration.

Mike Rodriguez

The estimated cost is $60,000 to the county for the operation. If the county wants him in jail, it should pay for the surgery.

Bryan Williams

She said that she was bringing him in. She drove him up to the back of the jail. Our investigators talked to him, and he offered no resistance whatever.

John Rehrauer

From the first day, I knew I'm going to go to prison or jail. I'll deal with it because somebody died.

Lisa Glaza

This jail has been accredited by the state as a jail that can hold juveniles because it has facilities to keep them separate from adults.

Robert Horan

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Piper Laurie

Nothing will ever change my opinion that an innocent man is in jail.

Michael Sherman

Hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

Ralph Phillips

It was very clearly a case where she was just as much involved as he was. If this had happened outside of a jail setting, there would have been no crime.

Jerry Kuckelman

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

Stephen Leacock

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Bobby Frankel

That's too long to be in deal jail. Frank's candor ended the affair.

Lawrence Haverty

There is no record that they were arrested. These people were never in the jail.

Fred Gelston

Jennifer is throwing herself on the mercy of this court and the community, and we hope the court, after hearing all the facts, will do what we ask, and that is not to put Jennifer in jail.

Barry Cohen

Other drunk drivers in similar situations have been arrested and put in jail immediately.

Anita Erhardt

Israel found no further justification to keep me in jail.

Haj Ali

It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail.

Matthew Cooper

You are given a second chance, so you choose if you want to go to jail ... if you're caught again no one can save you. Go your ways.

Rm Gayle

The defendant is remorseful. She's emotional. They do have her on a suicide watch at the jail.

Sheriff Kenneth Ramsey

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Kathleen Ham

We think both of them should go to jail.

William Stark

Something just told me to put up $2,500. So I put up $2,500 bail for Ibrahim, ... The thing that impressed me most of all, when I saw him in jail and when I saw him in person, was how bright-eyed he was.

Bruce Hill

It's the little ones that are the biggest problems. They're the ones who really don't want to go to jail.

Joe Intiso

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

Running a jail is really complex. It's not a textbook thing.

Lt. Michael Schlueter

I would ask you to look at whether any real harm was done. It doesn't appear to me to require any active jail time.

Tod Young

You can be faced with possibly going to jail (in which all four of those did), possibly being suspended from school and even from the band.

Robert F. Bennett

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Edward Koch

The message we want to send is: You don't come buy your drugs downtown unless you want to end up in jail.

Andy Smith

I guess you could say it's kind of like being in jail.

Craig Brehon

Without his property, there's no room for a jail.

Paul Patton

That approach is like letting the inmates run the jail. Reviews like this should be done independently of departments.

John Key

Out-of-state contractors are not allowed to do business in California in areas that have been declared a national disaster. We snag one of them, and it's a trip to jail.

Carl Vega

Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.

Joshua Young

There's an intermediate risk of torture, ... It's not just a risk of jail, there's no doubt he'll be jailed.

David Matas

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.

Peter Norvig

She was disoriented. She really needed rehab. She was doing 'blows' [heroin]. She left my house when she was 16, and she's been in and out of jail ever since. I think she escaped to get some more drugs.

Margaret Coleman

Everything stripped of them and then go to jail too?, I'm 100% for it.

Ray Edwards

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Kanye West

She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her in jail.

Lt. Jenell Atlas

Living in limbo is better than dying in jail.

Steve Kubby

We don't want to send citizens to jail.

Carl Brewer

Martha in jail would be fairly disastrous for the company. She cannot remain on the board of directors as a convicted felon.

Henry Mazurek

He ended up where he should have - in jail, ... The most important faction of the camorra was decapitated - it no longer has its head.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We in a jail house.

Debra Smith

Whether he's freed or spends time in jail, that he will give back to the community.

Tonya David

We would have liked to see jail time, but we're very happy with what the judge has decided.

Chuck Mcdevitt

That's a lot of days. It's bad for me. I've never been in jail that long.

Rafael Furcal

The Whitley County jail is the worst-operated jail that I have ever inspected.

Chuck Hughes

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Gene Simmons

For the last eight days I had to sleep in the jail sitting in a highly congested space.

Abdur Rahim

We wanted to know why the heck this guy isn't in jail.

Teresa Hostetler

I would love for that to be the amount of time I spend in jail.

Mark Koenig

The three days in jail he's had now could be like a year for some. In jail I worry about his ability to deal with what is going on.

Robert Hunt

I had no idea he had been in jail in more than one country, including in this country.

Cherie Blair

The sheriff had no authority to charge these fees, and he certainly had no authority to threaten people with jail time for failure to pay them.

Sarah Geraghty

We have a crisis right now. We're out of bed space in the jail. Right now we're having to house a lot of the inmates out of county and that gets to be expensive.

Ben Sciortino

The most immediate concern we have is that if Congress passes the House version, our client could actually go to jail for participating in the Patriot Act debate.

Ann Beeson

I'm very disappointed that he had to spend eight months in jail when there was absolutely no reason for him to do so.

Lanny Breuer

We've got out of jail and got a point.

John Maggs

If I were driving a car that killed two people, I wouldn't be getting any six months in jail, ... vile.

Charles Hynes

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden.

Danny Glover

Being in Ingham County Jail is the safest she has been in some period of time.

James White

I am blessed by what the DEA has done. I'd rather see marijuana legalized than me being saved from a U.S. jail.

Marc Emery

Companies could lose their legal protection if they use DRM in such a way. Then, if you don't make your e-book accessible and someone hacks it, he wouldn't go to jail.

Ross Anderson

I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself. He will go to jail and starve.

Geoffrey Fieger

Believed was a friend or relative of a Bradley County Jail inmate.

Jennifer Johnson

It goes beyond restaurants to school cafeterias, jail cafeterias, hospitals - to get them to have their fats, oils and greases collected and get them into some alternative use.

Nick Arhontes

Yeah, you'd be in jail.

Pam Brady

It's an unfortunate accident. There's a kid, a young man in county jail on an unrelated charge that is suffering.

Charlie Cummings

You can sleep at home, or you can sleep in the jail. But really, we appreciate all that you have done and the time you have spent.

Troy Hodges

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Rob Reiner

This is a country that destroys its finest company while its senior members languish in jail illegally.

Robert Amsterdam

If he were a guy in jail, nobody would think anything of it. He was able to channel that energy, that could have been turned into anger, instead into enthusiasm so other children don't have to go through the same thing he did.

Bret Bicoy

Look at the fellows with 30 cases of murder, attempted murder, extortion, rape against them. They are elected again and again even when they are contesting from jail.

Inder Malhotra

I want to help people live and not go to jail.

Angela Crawford

They should all go to jail. They should have sat there and stayed on the job. It's just going to make everyone miserable.

Jim Giannella

He's been held in jail [for a] long time. He's looking forward to his day in court to vindicate himself.

Robert Udell

It's a white collar criminal act and they're gambling when they do it. You're gambling with your life. Because if you're convicted it's a felony charge. If you have a gaming license you will never again have one. If you have a business license, in some places, you may never again have one. You could go to jail.

John Colledge

This man has been humiliated beyond belief by his own hand. He is estranged from those he loves most and cares most about. All his worldly possessions are gone. He will carry a crushing tax debt until the day he dies. He will go to jail until he's 70 years old.

Lee Blalack

Pain and consequences are motivators for an addict. You'd think jail and homelessness would be, but they're not, especially if the addict has been bailed out of bad situations again and again.

Bob Poznanovich

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Burl Cain

They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' prisons.

Cort Jensen

Don't throw them in jail and forget about them. Help them. There is definitely a drug problem.

Richard Harriman

The judge explained to him that he could have a hearing and stay here in jail until we had the hearing or he could go on back to New York and he decided to go on back to New York.

Tom Henderson

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Ambrose Bierce

I don't know where my cousin is or why he's being held. He's innocent, but he's still in jail and can't speak with our family.

Al Saedy

This is a real start to rebuilding this city, this jail.

Burl Cain

This is not going to be an easy shake. This is certainly not going to be a get-out-of-jail-free card. It's going to be very demanding.

Paul Welsh

He repeatedly asked to go to jail. He appeared intoxicated, according to the report. He said he was going to have a million-dollar NFL contract and that his lawyers would take care of it.

Keith Kameg

No town of 300,000 wouldn't have a jail.

Charles O. Prince Iii

We were lucky to get out of jail tonight, but it's good to get a win away from home.

Chris Whitaker

This is just corporate propaganda created by CEOs who want a get out of jail free card for corporate negligence.

Chris Mather

They want to fine the union into bankruptcy and put our leaders in jail.

Steve Stallone

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Irwin Schiff

Nothing like a jail sentence to humble you.

Nicki Gondell

I wish the police would have put Leo in jail where he belonged and none of this would have ever happened.

Socorro Pando

(Hilton) was instrumental in the capture and ultimately the conviction. I'm really happy to put this thing behind me, and that this guy will be in jail for 11 years.

Joe Francis

You can go to jail in the state of Pennsylvania for harassing a police dog.

Michael Dorsch

I got a call from Steve from jail, and he said he was suffering. It doesn't have to work this way.

Dale Gieringer

Apparently he is close friends with some people. We don't care. That doesn't factor into what we do. He was selling drugs. If you're selling drugs you're going to jail.

Andrew Arrington

They can put me in jail, I'm 70 years old, and I want to come home. If I am going to die, I want to die in New Orleans.

Gloria Irving

How many guys do you know who can physically grab somebody by the ear, and take 'em to jail? Well, he could do it.

Charles Holmes

I'm very concerned that he appears to believe strongly that the group were given warnings and ignored those legal warnings, something which the families of those in jail strongly repudiate.

Richard Howitt

Board members are subject to go to jail.... You wonder sometimes if they know that.

Mark Saad

I hope these people go to jail.

Seth Tobias

The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, ... This is an agreed-upon disposition where you could be sentenced to eight years or less.

John Pickard

Our first reaction is to be appalled at Yahoo helping to give information that puts dissidents in jail.

Lucie Morillon

And besides, ... we couldn't sell them now -- there's a history behind them now. Lex is in jail and the judge has branded them forgeries.

Mike Stern

My client's been in jail. My client has not interfered with anyone, he has not participated nor had awareness of knowledge or awareness of anybody in this case or any other case.

David Mejia

If he gets pulled over, he's going to jail.

Cindy Davis

We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.

Tim Chapman

I'll be honest with you. This is the longest I've ever gone without using and believe me, being in jail for me right now is a good thing.

John Patton

The only way he doesn't show up here is if he's in jail there. There is a huge difference between surrendering and having a warrant out for your arrest. He has to appear in Atlanta or everything gets a lot worse.

David Hayakawa

I didn't see any changes in him during 10 or 12 hours of interviews in four visits while he was in jail. He was focused, unemotional and his questions were good questions.

David Barrow

I am really, really against closing and doing away with that Greensboro jail, ... It's not a modern jail, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that jail except that it's overcrowded.

Paul Gibson

He faces some serious jail time.

Chris Farley

We're not able to spring people from jail just because they're Americans.

Maura Harty

Let's find them, let's prosecute them, and let's put them in jail.

Tom Donohue

The amount of jail they gave him, that will stay in my mind and will never come out.

Patrick Benjamin

I'm not going to ask for a pardon. In fact I'll probably be going to jail again. But those who want to be pardoned can be under this bill.

Rep. Alvin Holmes

It's just horrific. This is disgusting. This is a county jail. These are our brothers, nephews, sons, uncles.

William Grant

These games don't tell (children) once (a gang member) gets caught, he's going to go to jail and possibly be executed.

Rep. Dave Hogue

I just want to be able to run the jail according to the budget.

Danny Fackler

You have to have a jail before you can have security.

Burl Cain

The basic premise is a guy has been in jail for being one of the biggest gangland thugs in many years.

Joe Quesada

There's underlying racial tension in the jail, but no major incidents.

Tim Bedwell

We were convinced (Ashley) was dead. We came up here to regroup and go through this together. I'm probably the only mother ever to be proud her son was in jail.

Sharon Thomas

I hope that man rots in jail for a very long time, and that little girl gets the counseling she needs.

Shane Wilson

The jail was just chaotic.

Burl Cain

If we're called to a domestic dispute and we determined that a crime has been committed, then somebody is going to jail.

Mark Michael

It was a two-story brick building. The family that ran it lived in the front and the jail was in the back.

Bill Dreggors

They want out (of jail) so bad that they give me all good information.

Jack Sanders

They risk going to jail. That's a good deterrent.

John Bowen

We are not asking for jail time, just probation and some community service is what I would expect . . .,

John Pietrofesa

They would be in jail. There would be no ifs, ands or buts.

Georgia Groves

If I would have known that, perhaps I would have broken down and broken out of jail.

Salman Khan

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

Fred Hampton

Personally, I would rather see him die, but if he's in jail for the rest of his life, not having a life, I can deal with that.

Harold Walker

If you want them in jail, we don't want them in the classroom.

Jean Hill

The reinstatement is only a partial victory, we are now fighting to get our comrades who were arrested released from jail.

Gurudas Dasgupta

She said she had a 2-year-old child, and she was going to jail and was really scared.

Tennyson Collins

There's no good purpose in keeping this dedicated, honorable, committed professional in jail.

Paul Steiger

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

Dr. Dre

These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.

Rick Dunlap

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Bring the perpetrators to trial and have them convicted and go to jail.

Bree Smith

It's a distance you have to keep. People who are in jail continue to go to jail. It's a cycle. They get out and they do the same thing ... One thing about me - I learn from my mistakes.

Jason Berryman

It's like we are slaves, like we are in jail.

Billy Martin

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail.

Martin Edwards

If you want to come over to the jail after the hearing Mrs. Sage, I'll visit with you about this.

Martin Edwards

We have too many of our people going to jail.

Warren Williams

I've talked to experts in the field, people that are experts in design of jails, experts in construction and experts in operation of the jail and it can be cost effective downtown.

Joel Baker

It's an irony and a hypocrisy. They can even go to jail if they skip classes, and then after? We are not capturing all of these talents that could be their future, kids who could give back to the community what they have received.

Luz Corcuera

Something that deliberate and dangerous, you would think you would get jail time for doing it.

Lisa Lewis

I had no idea that it would escalate to the point that I would be arrested and thrown in jail.

Rick Eatmon

When I was wearing that green outfit (as an inmate in the county jail) I would always look forward to that little man with the big accordion.

Charles Sullivan

His records did better after he got out of jail then they did before he went to jail. It helped his career.

Chris Farley

They appear to be good human beings and compassionate. I am sure they will release not only my brother but also the elderly jail official who is with him.

Dharitri Rout

There is no other alternative at this point. We need to construct a new jail.

Kevin Kelleher

The government is turning justice on its head by keeping an innocent man in jail.

Mark Rosenbaum

What they should have done is build the jail Downtown.

Dan Cooper

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

H. L. Mencken

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail.

Gregory Nunn

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

John Money

My client demands dismissal of the charges and child protection proceedings and an apology. She will not leave the jail at this time.

Bryce Powell

We should have just built the jail out in the country.

Scott Garrett

They want me to go to jail for a little while.

Alain Robert

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.

Ruth Brown

The purpose behind this lawsuit is to improve the conditions of confinement for inmates in the county jail.

John Eldridge

I ain't write one rap since I was in jail.

Beanie Sigel

Under law, you can be fined or put in jail for 30 days, but that's an extreme case. It's a last reserve we would use.

Danny Deloach

A dangerous criminal sitting in jail is one less dangerous criminal in the street.

Yossi Sedbon

We certainly are concerned about any writings that she may have made that were confiscated from her in jail. I haven't seem them.

John Eldridge

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Lorrie Brown

I don't think the Government foresaw what would happen. The inevitable consequence of this is that journalists will go to jail.

Chris Warren

These days, more is required than just bowing deeply and saying you're sorry. You can go to jail.

Kevin Gibson

When we found her she had been locked up in jail for months, pregnant and without any papers. No authority even bothered to ask her age or identity.

Nikitas Kanakis

Better to learn them out here on the basketball court than to have to learn them in jail or in the ground. Learn some things about what respect means.

Jimmy Collins

It was a good thing that I was in jail, because there is no way that I could have matched the speech given by Fannie Lou Hamer.

Lawrence Guyot

Your jail is one of the most crowded jails I've been in.

Steve Carter

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that.

Albert Ellis

Camp Casey Philadelphia. I would even go to jail if it would bring my son back.

Michael Berg

They would have been in jail. There are a lot of young men in jail now who are waiting on DNA in jail.

Toloupe Omokaiye

If we see you doing it, you're going directly to jail.

Chief David Wynn

You can go to jail longer than for selling drugs.

Michael Meginley

You don't have a choice when you're in a jail.

Joey Stanton

If you can call these cages, take me to jail right now. Right now.

Michael Gravelle

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

Chris Powell

At least one of the counts, included an offer of sex in exchange for pills, although it didn't actually take place, ... This jail was out of control without a doubt.

Eddie Montgomery

Roger is going to jail for this contract. I don't know what more they want him to do.

Ed Watt

That's 69 guys who are going to jail someday and don't even know it yet.

Ed Skyler

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

Ezra Levant

I say its all about putting Coral Eugene Watts in jail and keeping him there.

Eugene Watts

The shelter dogs are always appreciative. They don't get to do this fun stuff, and this is a get-out-of-jail-free card for the day.

Erik Skarvan

I'm happy that somebody is in jail for it. I hope justice will be served.

Eric Wise

I'm scared that it is going to go down here. I'm scared that we're going to have a jail in our front yard.

Elizabeth White