Crime Quote by Henry Giroux

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent…

— Michelle Alexander

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner…

— Michelle Alexander

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end…

— Grace Lee Boggs

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

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

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison…

— Nigel Brennan

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building.…

— Michelle Alexander