About Quote by Michael J. Knowles

“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

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

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

“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for…

— 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

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

— Sam Branson

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

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

— Michelle Alexander

“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this…

— Bryan Stevenson

“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

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your…

— Junauda Petrus

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

— Eric Goode