Incarceration Quotes - Page 2

• In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.

  Benjamín Celoso

  Jobs, School, Opportunity

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Dunbar-Ortiz nos despoja de nuestra inocencia forjada, nos sacude en una nueva conciencia, y traza una línea recta desde los pecados de nuestros padres -colonialismo de los colonos, la doctrina del descubrimiento, el mito del destino manifiesto, la supremacía blanca, el robo y la matanza sistemática- hasta la condición contemporánea de guerra permanente, invasión y ocupación, encarcelamiento masivo, y el uso constante y la amenaza de la violencia estatal.

  Bill Ayers

  Padre, Guerra, Destino

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• There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

  J. C. Watts

  Crime, Correlation, Direct

  Fuente: beforeitsnews.com

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• 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

  Rights, Judging, Progress

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.15, The New Press

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• 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

  Racism, African American, Black

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• 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

  Black, Males, United States

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• 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

  Impact, America, Justice

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.

  Oren Moverman

  Educational, Police, Minorities

  "Entrevista al director de Rampart, Oren Moverman". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Cárcel

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• 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

  Support, Cost, Benefits

  "Bryan Stevenson on the True Costs of Mass Incarceration". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. July 12, 2012.

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• We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Drug Use, Path, Imagine

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Color, People

  "El nuevo Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Libro de Michelle Alexander, 5 de enero de 2010.

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• We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

  hampton de ensueño

  Talking, Mass Incarceration, Mass

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• 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

  Twilight, Reality, Body

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• Monastic incarceration is castration.

  Victor Hugo

  Castración

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.130

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• If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial bribes, join hands with people of all colors who are not content to wait for change to trickle down, and say to those who would stand in our way: Accept all of us or none.

  Michelle Alexander

  Hands, Color, America

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.258, The New Press

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• Durante mi encarcelamiento, mi madre me visitó. De alguna manera había conseguido salir del asilo y se esforzaba por establecer un hogar para nosotros. Su presencia era como un ramo de flores; tenía un aspecto tan fresco y encantador que yo me sentía avergonzada de mi aspecto desaliñado y de mi cabeza afeitada yodada. 'Debes disculpar su cara sucia', dijo la enfermera.Madre se rió, y qué bien recuerdo sus entrañables palabras mientras me abrazaba y me besaba: 'Con toda tu suciedad te sigo queriendo.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• Es hora de poner fin a la era del encarcelamiento masivo. Necesitamos un verdadero debate nacional sobre cómo reducir nuestra población carcelaria.

  Hillary Clinton

  Prison Population, Needs, Eras

  "Read: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform". Hillary Clinton's speech at Columbia University, www.vox.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

  Bill Vaughan

  Years, Law, People

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• Desde el pasillo de la repostería hasta la cola de correos, pasando por la papelera del desván, las mujeres pueblan todos los rincones oscuros de la Navidad. ¿Quién se levantó a las 4 de la mañana para meter el jamón en el horno? Una mujer. . . ¿Quién envió la tarjeta de Navidad en la que describía el encarcelamiento de su hijo de dieciocho años como "un breve descanso antes de la universidad"? Una mujer. ¿Quién se acordó de incluir pilas en el fondo de cada calcetín? Una mujer. ¿Y quién se lleva el mérito de todo esto? Santa. Así es. Un hombre.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Curación, Hijo, Oscuridad

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• 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

  Fighting, Issues, Important

  Fuente: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

  Kevin Drum

  Fall, White, Black

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• 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

  Fall, America, Long

  "We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2017.

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• The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Drug Use, Finals, Mental Health

  Fuente: m.motherjones.com

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