We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination again….

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade be….

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward bl….

If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration….

For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majori….

When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, ….

Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream bi….

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before th….

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refus….

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race ….

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our na….

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inn….

If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial….

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather wi….

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it..

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial….

The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or sad….

A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in pu….

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate coll….

The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice t….

No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black popu….