Community Quote by Heather Mac Donald

Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. You're relegated…

— Michelle Alexander

We can't have career criminals walking around with no records. The law enforcement community that I spoke with agreed.

— Tate Reeves

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

— Asif Ali Zardari

Convictions are prisons.

— Anonymous

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of…

— James Forman, Jr

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

“Merely reducing prison terms does not have a major impact on the majority of people in the system. It is the badge of inferiority—the…

— Michelle Alexander

Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds…

— Sadiq Khan

I’ve got no criminal record.

— Paul Watson

“The extraordinary increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is due almost entirely to the War on Drugs. With respect to…

— Michelle Alexander

“Once a person is labeled a felon, he or she is ushered into a parallel universe in which discrimination, stigma, and exclusion are perfectly…

— Michelle Alexander

“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond prison walls…

— Michelle Alexander