Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem. — Michael J. Knowles 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
We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic… — James Forman, Jr 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
I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society. — Michael Eric Dyson 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
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When we have people whose lives are being turned around in a negative way because they're incarcerated for either too long or… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that… — 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
“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
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
Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment… — Patrisse Cullors 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
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
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander 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
“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you… — Junauda Petrus Copy Share Image
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton Copy Share Image
We need to change sentencing laws that disproportionately hurt people of color. — Ralph Northam 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
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that… — Jerry Brown 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
