29 Quotes About Prison-industrial-complex
- Author Angela Y. Davis
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The very existence of the prison forecloses the kinds of discussions that we need in order to imagine the possibility of eradicating these behaviors.Just send them to prison. Just keep on sending them to prison. Then of course, in prison they find themselves within a violent institution that reproduces violence.
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- Author Angela Y. Davis
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This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".
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- Author Jackie Wang
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In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents. (pgs. 21-22)
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- Author Eric A. Stanley
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The existing criminal justice model poses two main questions in the face of social harm: Who did it? How can we punish them? (And increasingly, how can we make money from it?). Creating safe and healthy communities requires a different set of questions: Who was harmed? How can we facilitate healing? How can we prevent such harm in the future? --S. Lamble
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Whiteness mitigates crime, whereas blackness defines the criminal.
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- Author Jackie Wang
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Moreover, it is not merely a matter of a few white people being sadistic; whiteness as a category is, in part, maintained by ritualized violence against black people and white consumption of spectacularized images of antiblack violence. (pgs. 91-92)
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- Author Yusef Salaam
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When you find yourself in dark places, there's always a light somewhere in that darkness, and even if that light is inside of you, you can illuminate your own darkness by shedding that light on the world.
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- Author Yusef Salaam
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And maybethere are smallcracks in our wallsand we start to seea sliver of lightshine throughin each other
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons.
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