DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely die in prison without a chance to prove to society they are worthy of a second chance.

My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.