Top 201 Incarceration Quotes & Sayings

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.

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

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.

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.

As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a sort of subjective standard.

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.

I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at other countries. Start with Canadians - I want to think you aren't that different, so why can't we do our incarceration policies more like Canada? If we still had a 1970 level of incarceration which was the same as Canada's then and now, I never would have written this.

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

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.

The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.

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

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

I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically of minorities.

I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration.

The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

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.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

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.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

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

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.

For millions of Americans, the continued incarceration of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos is a grim reminder of everything that has gone wrong with border security.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

The appalling rate of incarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples demands we create justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework.

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.

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

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.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

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

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

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?

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration.

Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.

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

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

I love the story of 'Lamborghini Doors,' a record with Meek Mill and myself - it came together when I went to visit him during his incarceration.