African american Quote by Eddie Griffin

One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for…

— Randall Robinson

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“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

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the…

— 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

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano