“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. — Ric Keller 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
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime. — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot… — Jane Evelyn Atwood Copy Share Image
“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are… — 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
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers 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
“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
