America Quote by W. Kamau Bell

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than…

— Gary Johnson

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

“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

“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history of any…

— David Cay Johnston

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the…

— Bryan Stevenson

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

— Arundhati Roy

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse…

— Michelle Alexander

“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US has the…

— Jarod Kintz

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