Community Quote by Roger Ross Williams

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

— Judy Sheindlin

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

— Sam Branson

Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

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

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

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of…

— Leonard Peltier

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

— James Forman, Jr

“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for…

— Michelle Alexander

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

— J. C. Watts