Class Quote by Michelle Alexander

The world is a penal institution.

— Taylor Caldwell

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an…

— Michel Foucault

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

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“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

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which…

— Victoria Woodhull

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

— Eric Goode

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

— Dean Winters

“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond prison walls…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Michelle Alexander

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap.…

— Barack Obama