About Quote by Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light…

— James Forman, Jr

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Sam Branson

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

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

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking…

— Jerry Brown

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the…

— Michelle Alexander

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

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

— Michelle Alexander