America Quote by Kevin Drum

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

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

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

— Polly Toynbee

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

— Eric Holder

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul

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

— Sam Branson

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply…

— David Gauke

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

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think…

— Angela Davis