Crime Quote by Cori Bush

One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some…

— Polo G

When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target…

— Michelle Alexander

“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen

Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be…

— Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech…

— Michelle Alexander

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

— Henry Giroux

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there…

— Melissa Febos

“The flip side of the rising tide of black mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls "infantile omnipotence." This is the feeling that…

— Colin Flaherty

“Several researchers have found that the pressures that Black men and boys experience exact a toll on their (our)1 psychological and emotional well-being. How…

— Pedro A. Noguera

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

— Toni Morrison

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

— George Jackson

“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