29 Quotes About Prison-industrial-complex
- Author Jackie Wang
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In April 2014 a settlement agreement was reached in court, and Detroit had to pay $85 million to USB AG and Bank of America Corporation to terminate the swaps. The use of variable-rate instruments, such as swaps, to finance debt was the single "biggest contributing factor to the increase in Detroit's legacy expenses." (pg. 169)
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- Author Jackie Wang
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The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration. (pg. 85)
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- Author Jackie Wang
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This evolution in the social function of the state from provider of social services to provider of security also represented an evolution in how racialized populations in the United States would be manged. The project of dismantling the welfare state gained legitimacy through the association of social entitlements with blackness.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Every single day, our governments allow many of those who have never killed even a single plant or animal to starve to death, but feed—more than once—many of those who have each killed many people intentionally.
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- Author Beth Macy
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Despite claims that these radical policy changes were driven by fiscal conservatism...the reality is that government was not reducing the amount of money devoted to the management of the urban poor. It was radically altering what the funds would be used for....Funding that had once been once used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime.
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- Author Sarah Lamble
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Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place.
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- Author Angela Y. Davis
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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems—racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on.
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