America Quote by Gary Johnson

“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

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

— W. Kamau Bell

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the…

— Bryan Stevenson

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per…

— Peter Moskos

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history of any…

— David Cay Johnston

What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We…

— Bernie Sanders