There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary 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
“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
Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to… — Peter Hedges 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
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
“You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson 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
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of… — Jan Brewer 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
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought… — 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
“We should ask ourselves whether efforts to achieve "cosmetic" racial diversity- that is, reform efforts that make institutions look good on the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
“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
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
We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton 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 need to change sentencing laws that disproportionately hurt people of color. — Ralph Northam 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
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
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. — Yance Ford 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
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
She was there through my incarceration I wanna show the nation my appreciation. — Shaggy Copy Share Image
