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“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”

Pain Chance Possibility Victim Prison Deny Trauma Stuck Parole Relinquishing

Book:Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.”

Men Has Beens Given Speech Disguise Parole

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".”

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Author:Bobby Heenan

“To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.”

Marriage Sentences Guilty Funny Marriage Pleading Parole

Author:John Mortimer

“Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.”

Giving Years Nations Policy Six Sentences Insanity Marijuana Users Murderer Joints Imprisonment Psychosis Parole

Author:Eric Schlosser

“The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.”

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Author:Jack Kevorkian

“I give no more paroles to British officers.”

Giving British Officers Parole

Author:Christopher Gadsden

“I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.”

People Giving Has Beens Government British Parole British Government

Author:Christopher Gadsden

“No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.”

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Author:Daryl Gates

“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.”

Men War Age Today Cities Half Millions Subjects Majors Prison Decades Discrimination African American Civil War Jail Cycling Parole Branded American Cities Felons Probation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.”

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Author:Scott Harshbarger

“Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.”

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Author:Robert Falcon Scott

“A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.”

“I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!”

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Author:John Waters