Best Quote by Anthony Ray Hinton

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts.…

— Cori Bush

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color…

— Martin Luther King III

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander

We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

— Hillary Clinton

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the…

— Dave Matthews

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

— Yance Ford

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap.…

— Barack Obama

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites,…

— Glenn Greenwald

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system

— Mark Geragos

“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and…

— Howard Zinn