"Mass incarceration means that this country approaches its problems through the criminal-justice system. When faced wi…"

"The United States now has the highest in the Western world, the in the entire world, and one of the lowest turnout ra…"

"Incarceration in prison or a local jail sets poor people up for exploitation in a forced labor system. New Deal laws …"

"Presently, there are 2.3 million people housed in the country’s prisons, jails and other criminal-justice facilities.…"

"Today, America ranks among the most punitive states in world history — second only to the Soviet Union under Stalin."

"If we are right that the overdevelopment of the American penal state is a symptom of the underdevelopment of the Amer…"

"The American prison system has no equal in any other country or any other epoch. Almost 2 million people sit in our p…"

"More than two million people in the United States are behind bars, a higher rate of incarceration than any other coun…"

"We myopically serve the rapacious appetites of those dedicated to exploitation and maximizing profit. And our corpora…"

"Our , which holds 2.3 million prisoners, or 25 percent of the world’s prison population, makes money by keeping priso…"