29 Quotes About Prison-industrial-complex
- Author Michelle Alexander
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In 1972, fewer than 350,000 people were being held in prisons and jails nationwide, compared with more than 2 million people today (10),
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- Author Leslie Jamison
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Prison is a wound we keep tucked in those parts of the country that can’t afford to turn it away, who need its jobs or revenue, who must endure the quiet violence of its physical presence—its “Don’t Pick Up Hitchhikers” warning signs, its barbed fences—the same way a place must endure the removal of its mountaintops and the plundering of its seams: because a powerful rhetoric insists we can only be delivered from our old scars by tolerating new ones.
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