Ryan King Quotations

Tennessee has one of the most confusing laws in the country.

Prisons are not institutions that are set up for that purpose, so when you have somebody who needs that degree of care and attention, obviously, it's going to be much more expensive. Certainly, it is much more cost effective in an institution, whether a nursing home or hospice, to be cared for by a staff trained to do that.

Medical parole has traditionally been used only sparingly across the country, despite the savings it could provide for prisons and despite the senselessness of keeping terminally ill men and women behind razor wire.

It tends to be used at the very, very, very end stages of a person's life. By and large, this is not a population with a great security risk. If not for security, for what reason are we keeping the people in prison?