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
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse… — Joshua Wong 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
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in… — Hakeem Jeffries 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
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
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
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
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The third job of copaganda is to convince the public to spend more money on the punishment bureaucracy by framing police, prosecutors,… — Alec Karakatsanis 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
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
“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are… — David Cay Johnston 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
“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist.… — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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