Crime Quote by Bryan Stevenson

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“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

“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

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction…

— Daniel Quinn

“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as though it…

— Michelle Alexander

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

“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

“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of…

— Michelle Alexander