The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
“The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25 percent of the world’s prison population.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais 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
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
“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation… — David Von Drehle Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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