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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade…

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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that… — Arianna Huffington
We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the… — Martin Luther
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special… — Robert Kennedy
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact,… — Jane Addams
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
For digital natives, public schools are jails — Bing Gordon
Is all the world jails and churches? — Zack de la Rocha
I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or… — Richard Wurmbrand
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were… — Unknown Author
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith.… — Smokey Robinson

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