“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs… — John Rachel 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 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
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — 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
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform. — Ralph Nader 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
“Today, it is predicted that nationwide one in three black males and one in six Hispanic males will be incarcerated in their… — Dominique DuBois Gilliard 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
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could… — John Rachel 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
When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what… — Bernie Sanders 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 US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole.… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
We have to change laws. We have to change our approach to policing and incarceration in general. But we can get the… — Melissa Mark-Viverito 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
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
