Aliens Quote by Michael Dean Crapo

“In the federal system alone there were 90,000 prisoners locked up for drug offenses, compared with about 40,000 for violent crimes. A federal prisoner…

— Piper Kerman

Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden…

— Carole Keeton

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

— Ric Keller

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

— Donald Trump

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

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 a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Michelle Alexander

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to…

— James Fox