Laurence Housman Quotes

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I know prisons from the inside.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

All my life I have been under investigation.... I will just have to hire 200 more lawyers to keep me out of jail.

We have far more plea bargains in our system than we do trials.

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.

Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.

It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.