Building Quote by Michelle Alexander

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of…

— Michelle Alexander

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

“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

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as…

— Michael K. Williams

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and…

— Susan Burton

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of…

— Michelle Alexander

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

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

— James Forman, Jr

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

— Sam Branson

“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