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

— Bernie Sanders

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

— Anthony Gregory

What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We…

— Bernie Sanders

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

— Eric Holder

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

— Henry Rollins

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

— Arundhati Roy

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than…

— Gary Johnson

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than…

— Fran Lebowitz

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul