There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend Copy Share Image
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Until 1988, one year of imprisonment had been the maximum for possession of any amount of any drug.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton 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
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
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson 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
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 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
“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 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
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
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
These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than… — Peter Moskos 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
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
“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
“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
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one… — Susan Burton 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
“The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a… — Kat Timpf 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
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
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
