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I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— Michelle Alexander

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of…

— James Forman, Jr

We are stuck in a cycle of people serving time for committed crimes, leaving prison, committing new crimes, and returning to serve more time…

— Josh Shapiro

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

— Eric Goode

We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when they return…

— Wes Moore

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they…

— Van Jones

“If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough…

— Michelle Alexander

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your…

— Junauda Petrus

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations…

— Chesa Boudin

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen