Crime Quote by Mark Lewis Taylor

“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

“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

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

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

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Sam Branson

“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

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We…

— Susan Burton

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal…

— 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