American Quote by Chesa Boudin

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

— David Steward

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level…

— Michelle Alexander

I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had…

— Varg Vikernes

“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

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— Michelle Alexander

“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators manage to…

— Christopher Zoukis

“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

— J. C. Watts

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

“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