Percentages Quote by Serj Tankian Download Open image “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.” — Serj Tankian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Percentages Prison Prison system Reality
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985 — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 the likes of which the world has never seen. In two short decades, between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in our nation's prisons and jails soared from roughly 300,000 to more than 2… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of our prison sentences—that have been responsible for the growth of our prison… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching a postwar… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of... — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently,… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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