Government Quote by Ann Coulter

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources are there.

— Joe Arpaio

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail…

— Michelle Alexander

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

“The facts tell a very different story: (1) First-generation Mexican immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans; (2) as rates of immigration have…

— Paul A. Offit

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of...

— Henry Rollins

“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty of any crime.”

— Colin Warner

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 one per…

— Peter Moskos

In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the…

— Sam Branson

“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching a postwar…

— Michael Hardt

“Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either…

— Matt Taibbi