"... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most……" — Michelle Alexander
"... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future."
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39 Quotes by Michelle Alexander
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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