Complexes Quote by Cornel West

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation),…

— Noam Chomsky

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone…

— Michelle Alexander

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about…

— Ava DuVernay

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic…

— Eugene Jarecki

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other…

— Jesse Ventura

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

— Holly Near

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

What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels…

— Trevor Paglen