The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Incarceration and recidivism rates high? Providing people an incentive to stay out of jail while also providing them some level of economic… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I hear people say,money is the motivation,but where is the determination,when that money gets a cancellation,then what,a altercation.which leads to incarceration,im just… — Author Name Copy Share Image
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
“Ojiugo often asked, 'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
