We have too many of our people going to jail,

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.

It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words.

I went to jail.

We are the victims, but we've got to help ourselves,

We were in the attic before we were rescued, ... At that time, the shelters were segregated.