Jail Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

— Serj Tankian

“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom…

— Michelle Alexander

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

— Serj Tankian

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons…

— Sally Yates

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of…

— Randall Robinson

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's…

— Noam Chomsky

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per…

— Peter Moskos

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

— Bobby Scott

“Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either…

— Matt Taibbi