Incarceration Quotes - Page 4

• We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things. We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.

  Ben H. Winters

  Educational, Opportunity, Long

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison on any given day, but also all those who are in jail, on probation or parole, as well as all those who are just months away from being locked up again because they are unable to find work or housing due to their criminal record.

  Michelle Alexander

  Thinking, Jail, People

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Prison Population, Two

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

  Sam Branson

  People, Police, Prison

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• 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?

  Michelle Alexander

  Views, Expectations, Care

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the book "Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration."

  Michelle Alexander

  Book, Corporations, Making Money

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

  Michelle Alexander

  Prevention, Crime, Social

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Country, Father, Home

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• Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Party, Fall

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• But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Class, White

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• I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.

  Michelle Alexander

  Escuela, Media, Niños

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Un movimiento educativo basado en el medio ambiente -en todos los niveles educativos- ayudará a los estudiantes a darse cuenta de que la escuela no debe ser una forma educada de encarcelamiento, sino un portal al mundo en general.

  Richard Louv

  Naturaleza, Escuela, Padres

  Richard Louv (2013). "El último niño en el bosque: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder", p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd.

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• 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

  Unemployment, Holiness, Sides

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• Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

  Roger Avary

  Way, Totality

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• Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

  Michelle Alexander

  United States, Littles, Today

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Writing, Mean, Gun

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Couple, Believe, Boys

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

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• Digo algunas cosas buenas de Canadá en el libro. Pero los americanos son raros. Nos negamos a mirar a otros países. Empezamos con los canadienses - quiero pensar que no son tan diferentes, así que ¿por qué no podemos hacer nuestras políticas de encarcelamiento más como Canadá? Si todavía tuviéramos un nivel de encarcelamiento en 1970 que fuera el mismo que el de Canadá entonces y ahora, nunca habría escrito esto.

  Peter Moskos

  Country, Book, Thinking

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

  Trevor Paglen

  Trying, Kind, Problem

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration is that the prison system is broken. My first-hand experiences have taught me that reform needs to happen sooner than later. I'm most interested in mentoring children with parents in prison. When a parent is sentenced to a jail term, the child is sentenced to the same time to be spent without a mother or father. No child should suffer a stigma or lack support and guidance because of the sins of a parent.

  Kambri Crews

  Madre, hijos, padre

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• We have to change laws. We have to change our approach to policing and incarceration in general. But we can get the population to a point where we can then go to the community-based facility models, where people should be able to await their trial dates, or if you're in jail for a year or less, if you have some sort of time that you have to spend in jail, that you can do it closer to your networks. Your family can visit you. You can talk about other ways of having people complete their time.

  Melissa Mark-Viverito

  People, Our Family, You Can Do It

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• Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Country, War

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Las diversas "guerras contra las drogas" a lo largo de la historia han matado a millones de personas, esclavizado a millones más, destruido familias y, por lo general, no son más que meros pretextos para el encarcelamiento masivo, la vigilancia masiva, la limpieza étnica y el control de la población.

  Kool A.D.

  War, Drug, Various

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

  Glenn Loury

  Army, Liberty, World

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Fuente: m.motherjones.com

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