Control Quote by Michelle Alexander

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

— Michelle Alexander

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure…

— Michelle Alexander

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

— Michelle Alexander

“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are often part…

— David Cay Johnston

My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste system than…

— Michelle Alexander

“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison large populations.…

— David Cay Johnston

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

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

“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

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

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

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