Incarceration Quote by James Forman, Jr

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light…

— James Forman, Jr

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

— James Forman, Jr

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Michelle Alexander

“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison large populations.…

— David Cay Johnston

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are often part…

— David Cay Johnston

“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy,…

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure…

— Michelle Alexander