School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her… — Emily Mann Copy Share Image
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“On the individual level, violence is driven by shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one’s economic needs—factors that… — Danielle Sered Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs… — John Rachel Copy Share Image
Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in… — Hakeem Jeffries Copy Share Image
“That’s the biggest danger of incarceration: you get used to it. It’s not the goon in the bathroom with a blade hidden… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
