Construction Quote by Michelle Alexander

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream…

— Michelle Alexander

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community,…

— Michelle Alexander

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can…

— James Fox

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech…

— Michelle Alexander