Country Quote by Randall Robinson

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an…

— Randall Robinson

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 US has 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25 percent of the world’s prison population.”

— Shane Claiborne

“The workers who built the settlements and produced the export crops may now enjoy their freedom in the world’s largest prison.58”

— Noam Chomsky

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

— Ted Turner

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

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

— Ricky Gervais

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective…

— David Von Drehle

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

— Bobby Scott

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to…

— Anonymous

“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”

— Gabor Maté

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We…

— Isaac Asimov