Attention Quote by Ava DuVernay

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels…

— Trevor Paglen

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of…

— Jonathan King

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the…

— Michelle Alexander

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that…

— Ayelet Waldman

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which…

— Hakeem Jeffries

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper…

— Thomas Frank

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

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

— Brad Parscale

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation),…

— Noam Chomsky

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go…

— Richard Pryor

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

— Jimmy Carter