Basic human rights Quote by Michelle Alexander

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building.…

— Michelle Alexander

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of…

— Michelle Alexander

The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But the reality…

— Michelle Alexander

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a…

— Richard Louv

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

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

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

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

— Sam Branson