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Prison in sentence

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At the age of 21, I was in a maximum-security prison called Elmira Correctional Facility.
So I connect them with the services that they need once they're released from jail and prison so they can make a positive transition back into society.
He was getting arrested before he shaved, first juvenile, then prison.
They lived in cubicles the size of prison cells covered with chicken wire so you couldn't jump from one room into the next.
A dozen years later, Mary went to prison to meet Oshea and find out who this person was who had taken her son's life.
Like when I was 35 and sat in a locked-up, tiny prison.
So I'll come back to the story of when I was caught in the prison: I was very happy freeing a dozen children from slavery, handing them over to their parents.
And that institution is prison.
This institution is also costing us a lot, about 40,000 dollars a year to send a young person to prison in New Jersey.
But here, taxpayers are footing the bill and what kids are getting is a cold prison cell and a permanent mark against them when they come home and apply for work.
What's more, it's poor kids that we're sending to prison, too many drawn from African-American and Latino communities so that prison now stands firmly between the young people trying to make it and the fulfillment of the American Dream.
The problem's actually a bit worse than this 'cause we're not just sending poor kids to prison, we're saddling poor kids with court fees, with probation and parole restrictions, with low-level warrants, we're asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest, and we're asking them to negotiate a police force that is entering poor communities of color, not for the purposes of promoting public safety, but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.
So you've got these two parallel journeys going on simultaneously: the kids attending this elite, private university, and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood, some of whom are making it to college, and many of whom are being shipped to prison.
I want you to imagine for a second what Chuck and Tim's lives would be like if they were living in a neighborhood where kids were going to college, not prison.
Don't they deserve to be in prison?
It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison.
New York, New Jersey and California have been dropping their prison populations, closing prisons, while also seeing a big drop in crime.
I want to end with a call to young people, the young people attending college and the young people struggling to stay out of prison or to make it through prison and return home.
I spend my time here inside these prison walls.
The school was a heavily guarded prison, posing as a campus.
When Sami Osmakac attempted to deliver what he thought was a car bomb, he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
One day, in South Africa, I visited Nelson Mandela's former prison cell on Robben Island.
In the United States of America, for instance, we have had an enormous increase in abuse of poor people, mostly black people and minorities, by putting them in prison.
When I was in office as governor of Georgia, one out of every 1,000 Americans were in prison.
Nowadays, 7.3 people per 1,000 are in prison.
And since I left the White House, there's been an 800 percent increase in the number of women who are black who are in prison.
In Arizona, I went out with a group of women who were made to wear t-shirts saying, "I was a drug addict," and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again.
Einstein once said, "A human being is part of the whole ... but he experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest ... This delusion is a kind of prison for us ... Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion."
I have organized against the prison system, which impacts poor folks, especially black, indigenous and Latino folks, at an alarming rate.
It was the execution, the guillotining, of a German serial killer, Eugen Weidmann, outside the prison Saint-Pierre in Versailles.
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