African american Quote by Hillary Clinton

“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people behind bars…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

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

— Bernie Sanders

“One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system—in prison, in jail, on probation, or on…

— michelle alexander

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in "disappearing"…

— Michelle Alexander

“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of…

— Michelle Alexander

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system…

— Barack Obama

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

— Bryan Stevenson

After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy,…

— Michelle Alexander