Incarceration Quotes
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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.
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.
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
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.
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.
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.
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.
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
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.
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.
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.
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.
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.
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.
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.
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.
My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.
I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.
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.
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.
We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.
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.
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?
Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.
Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.
Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).
Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.