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You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home…

— David Letterman

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison…

— Michelle Alexander

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

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

“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

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in…

— Peter Moskos

“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…

— Michelle Alexander

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

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

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

— Shane Claiborne

As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't…

— Mary Pilon