African american Quote by Bernie Sanders

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but…

— Harry Belafonte

“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

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

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

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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

“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

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