Crime Quote by 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

What makes a lot of sense is that, while people are incarcerated, give them the tools they need to be able to have a…

— Valerie Jarrett

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at…

— Piper Kerman

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when they return…

— Wes Moore

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think…

— Angela Davis

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

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need…

— J. B. Pritzker

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen