Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When we have people whose lives are being turned around in a negative way because they're incarcerated for either too long or… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Oklahoma has the highest female incarceration rate in the country, and nearly thirty per cent of female inmates in the state have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. It… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I cover my eyes with both hands. I think I'm either going to vomit or cry. At the moment, I can't decide… — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski Copy Share Image
“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In the early years of the 20th century, Mississippi Governor James K. Vardaman used to amuse himself by releasing black convicts into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The fact that more than 50 percent of Americans have an immediate family member either currently or formerly incarcerated tells you a… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
One study conducted in Washington, D.C. indicated that 3 out of 4 black men, and nearly all those living in the poorest… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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