Going Quote by John Layfield

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

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

— Michelle Alexander

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander

As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential…

— Christine Tsai

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

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

— Michelle Alexander

“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and…

— Michelle Alexander

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of…

— Michelle Alexander

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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