Book Quote by Michelle Alexander

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one…

— Eugene Jarecki

“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone…

— Michelle Alexander

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the…

— 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

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and…

— Michelle Alexander

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are often part…

— David Cay Johnston

“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression,…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do…

— Jon Tester

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to…

— Lewis H. Lapham