Black Quote by Kevin Drum

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community…

— Michelle Alexander

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation…

— Michelle Alexander

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

— Peter Hedges

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or…

— Michelle Alexander

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

— Michelle Alexander

“Young Black males were twenty-one times more likely to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012, according to federal…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often…

— James Forman Jr

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially…

— Noam Chomsky

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

If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.

— Tim Kaine