There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her… — Emily Mann 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
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet. — W. Kamau Bell 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
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
As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is… — Michelle Alexander 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
Incarceration and recidivism rates high? Providing people an incentive to stay out of jail while also providing them some level of economic… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
“Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
“If Black people make up 13.2 percent of the US population, then Black people should make up somewhere close to 13 percent… — Ibram X. Kendi 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
“The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. It… — Michelle Alexander 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
In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure… — Benjamin Jealous 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
Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander 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
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
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
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration. — Kevin Drum 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
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I hear people say,money is the motivation,but where is the determination,when that money gets a cancellation,then what,a altercation.which leads to incarceration,im just… — Author Name Copy Share Image
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family.… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
