Correlation Quote by J. C. Watts

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level…

— Michelle Alexander

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and…

— Wilbert Rideau

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking…

— Jerry Brown

Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common…

— Ken Cuccinelli

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents…

— Benjamin Jealous

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been…

— Sam Brownback

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

— George Pelecanos

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

— Oren Moverman

When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

— Tony Evans

I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had…

— Varg Vikernes

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs,…

— Bobby Scott