Black Quote by Michelle Alexander

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community…

— Michelle Alexander

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

— Kevin Drum

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

— Michelle Alexander

“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or…

— Michelle Alexander

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often…

— James Forman Jr

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

— Michelle Alexander

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

— Peter Hedges

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their fate…if the…

— Michelle Alexander