throw away the keys

Until you get out of the car, throw away the keys, put on your sneakers and start walking, you have no idea of the world that we actually live in, and Baltimore City changed radically for me when I got rid of my car.

"I want him to be locked up for a very long time so he that he cannot hurt any more people. Throw away the keys so he won’t be able to get out anymore."

In a much-quoted 1981 dissent, he condemned the “simplistic penological philosophy that, if we lock the prison doors and throw away the keys, our streets will somehow be safe.”

“It’s hard to say this, but sometimes, it’s better for them to be in here than out on the streets. Sometimes, we see them once and never again. Others it takes a few times. Success comes with steps. “We’re trying to put something into them rather than lock them up and throw away the keys.

Earlier this month, Google launched Allo, a chat app that allows users to switch on end-to-end encryption, and Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos said he was exploring measures to encrypt data and throw away the keys on devices owned by the Seattle-based company.