54 Incarceration Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. George Soros

Would Costs Simultaneously Revenue Dollars Providing While Taxing Taxpayers Enforcement Incarceration Billions Billions Of Dollars Many Save

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration. Malcolm Jenkins

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Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment. Al Sharpton

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Incarceration and recidivism rates high? Providing people an incentive to stay out of jail while also providing them some level of economic security while they get back on their feet - both accomplished by a UBI - sounds like a great way to solve that problem. Andrew Yang

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So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today. Beth Macy

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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. Clint Smith

School Earnings Rates Higher Greater Graduation Incarceration Associated

A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth. Cornel West

Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family. But the show is addressing incarceration in a way it didn't used to: by bringing the show directly to the kids and families it wants to reach. Elizabeth Flock

Death Family AIDS Addressing Way Kids Parent Directly Divorce Over Reach Years Overseas Families Wants Deployment Incarceration Used Show Street Muppet Bringing Sesame Sesame Street

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise. Eugene Jarecki

You Prison Politicians Related Complex System Jobs Promise District Steady Rely Thrust Put Mass Term Industrial Industries Call Because Off Bureaucratic Behind Incarceration Hard Shut Flow

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. Foxy Brown

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air. Howard Jacobson

Man Book Breath Air Record Lay Read Without Makes Auschwitz Common Cannot Aside Pause Much Incarceration Inhale Levi Needing

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things. Jan Brewer

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Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union. Joe Morton

Life Joke Country Every Embarrass More Perfect Hour Metaphor His Providing Incarceration Used Union March Syllable

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem. John Layfield

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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. John Layfield

Our Minorities Mass Going Incarceration Population Disproportionate Specifically Among

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

Behavior Community Supposed Safe Incarceration Your Keep

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. Matthew Desmond

Women Black Men Define Defining Come Just Low-Income Incarceration Lives

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse. Michelle Alexander

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Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty. Michelle Alexander

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