“Only poor people go to jail.”

— Charles Barkley

From interview on Jim Rome show

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American basketball player 1963

Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) American writer

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.… Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Dialogue with trade unionists, February 2, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20051226071614/http://zpedia.org/Chomsky_on_pot
Quotes 1990s, 1995–1999

“The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.”

Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator

Hannity & Colmes (24 August 2001).
2001

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“But I understand I have no right to give up, because people who are in jail didn't give up. They now are suffering for us. Only these people, the families of those repressed in Belarus, have given me the energy to go on.”

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982) Belarusian politician and educator

"Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says 'harsh' sanctions needed" in DW https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-opposition-leader-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-says-harsh-sanctions-needed/a-57869000 (12 June 2021)

“I'm too pretty to go to jail.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant) (1962) American political consultant

As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard
2010s

“Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Gunmetal Magic

“We do not jail people for their opinions[.]”

Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960) Iranian politician

On 29 April 2015, Zarif appearing on the Charlie Rose talk-show, when asked about the detention of Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter held in Iran for the past nine months. According to [Iranian foreign minister angers supporters with human rights claim, 1 May 2015, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/iranian-foreign-minister-angers-supporters-human-rights-charlie-rose]
Interview to CNN, Revolution

“We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win.”

Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist

The Australian, "Hackers poised for further releases" http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/anonymous-hackers/story-e6frg6so-1226231714054, 28 December 2011.

“OJ isn't going to jail — he just changed his name to BJ.”

Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist

Tailgate Party (2009)

“Only poor people go to jail.”

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