“This is a system that just grinds people into it who are the most vulnerable. You know, you can judge a lot by a country by who they incarcerate.”— Cory Booker, npr.org
“There are some countries that incarcerate political opposition, some countries that incarcerate the media ... but if you look at our prisons and jails we incarcerate overwhelmingly the addicted, mentally ill, low-income, low-income, low-income folks ... and then disproportionately people of color.”— Cory Booker, npr.org
“Once you accept that these people will one day be your neighbors, you might feel more invested in making sure they have the skills to get by on the outside.”— Dashka Slater, motherjones.com
“That thing that attacked me is your mom? I hope they lock her up and melt the key down for bullets.”— Aïda Mashaka Croal, Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter, imdb.com
“The business of incarceration is extremely lucrative and virtually recession proof.”— Virgil Williams, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“In 2011, the Government Accountability Office reported that there were three million arrests that could be attributed to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent criminals. There were 351,000 criminal illegal aliens in our prisons— that number does not include the cr…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com