While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton 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 majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis 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
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it — 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
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
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
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
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
As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Conservatives will fight hard to preserve the institutions of mass incarceration and police brutality. Because they don't see themselves as victims of… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson 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
“The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. In Chicago (as in other cities across the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In a nation still stuck in an old Jim Crow mind-set - which equates racism with white bigotry and views racial diversity… — 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
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
