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All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our…

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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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We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed… — Paul Smith
I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along,… — Barack Obama
As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes — Kerry Emanuel
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough… — Harriet Quimby
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65. — Neil Sheehan
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but… — Isaac Asimov
Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror… — Richard Turner
It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there… — Jamie Oliver
I never exceed the posted speed limit. — Jason Priestley
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as… — Maggie Stiefvater
In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does… — Dave Barry
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little… — Jimmie Johnson

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