Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform. — Ralph Nader 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
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded… — Shaun King 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
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s,… — Michelle Alexander 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
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic… — James Forman, Jr 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
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 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
“Deputy sheriffs had always held the power in the jails. They controlled the culture of the place. if they didn't like you… — Sunny Schwartz Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.… — Ayelet Waldman 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
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
“Cultural copaganda is all around us--from the CIA , starting in the 1950s funding projects like the Iowa Writers' Workshop or fronting… — Alec Karakatsanis 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
“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge… — 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
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
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
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
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist.… — Fred Korematsu 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
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
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