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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness -- Michelle Alexander
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. -- Michelle Alexander
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
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs -- Michelle Alexander
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
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
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
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
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence. -- Bill Ayers
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
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way. -- Kevin Drum
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch. -- Michelle Alexander
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 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
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

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