“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
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones 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
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep… — Michelle Alexander 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
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
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
“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
