If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime. — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong 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
One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting… — Malcolm Jenkins 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
“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
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“On the individual level, violence is driven by shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one’s economic needs—factors that… — Danielle Sered Copy Share Image
But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison… — David Cay Johnston 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
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
“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I cover my eyes with both hands. I think I'm either going to vomit or cry. At the moment, I can't decide… — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski Copy Share Image
“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Once the criminal has served his time, he returns to his old neighborhood. There’s a good chance he’s been psychologically damaged by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton Copy Share Image
Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“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
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs — 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
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
“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
