Country Quote by Peter Moskos

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than…

— Gary Johnson

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail…

— 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

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of...

— Henry Rollins

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

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

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

— Bernie Sanders

“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 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

“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

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but…

— Harry Belafonte