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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness -- Michelle Alexander
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. -- Ric Keller
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
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. -- George Soros
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. -- Ben Kingsley
Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated. -- Nicholas Kristof
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. -- Matt Gonzalez
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious -- Foxy Brown
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious. -- Foxy Brown
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. -- Annie Besant
Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. -- Maggie Young
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. -- Sam Branson
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids. -- Maia Szalavitz
Incarceration is the way a woman is expected to date like a soccer goalie, shuffling back and forth to block the balls constantly flying in her direction and shamed the moment she lets one slip in her net. -- Maggie Young
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. -- Michelle Alexander
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime. -- J. C. Watts
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. -- Paul Hawken
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs -- Michelle Alexander
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. -- Tommy Chong
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. -- Rand Paul
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created. -- Bryan Stevenson
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment. -- Al Sharpton
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. -- Richard Louv
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males. -- Noam Chomsky
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration. -- Jeff Cooper
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. -- Michelle Alexander
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners? -- Yael Stone
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it. -- Nathaniel Rich
That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other. -- Otis Moss III
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 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars. -- Gary Johnson
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation. -- Peter Kropotkin
The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration. -- Noam Chomsky
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things. -- Jan Brewer
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise. -- Eugene Jarecki
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that. -- Noam Chomsky
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were Black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. -- Michelle Alexander
Monastic incarceration is castration. -- Victor Hugo
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. -- Barry McCaffrey
We canâ??t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. -- dream hampton
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform. -- Ralph Nader
We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse. -- Greg Gutfeld
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration. -- Kevin Drum
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
Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. -- Nelson Mandela
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. -- Oren Moverman
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up. -- Kevin Drum
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually." -- George Soros
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down. -- Jerry Brown
My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice. -- Leonard Peltier
Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton. -- Henry Giroux
Who leads the world in consumption? America! Who has more lawyers per capita? America! Who has the highest incarceration rate? America! What is the greatest country on earth? America! -- Jarod Kintz
States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive. -- Ayelet Waldman
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community. -- Hakeem Jeffries
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. -- Bryan Stevenson
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past. -- Michael K. Williams
It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration. -- John Legend

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