“We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.” I CanUsePathImagineDrugIllegalIncarcerationDrug UseIllegal Drugs Author:Greg Gutfeld
“States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive.” WarStatesFightingRealizingDrugSpendingWar On DrugsIncarcerationCounterproductive Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.” ThinkingWorldWarUseCoursesUnderstandingDemocracyDrugMassEmpowermentDestructionResponseCriminalsAround The WorldMiserableEnterpriseSaneHaltWar On DrugsHorrificIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationCharting Author:Ayelet Waldman
“The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?” EndsUseNationsDrugApproachMassMental HealthSlaveFinalsGenderCompassionateGender EqualityPublic HealthProliferationIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationHealth System Author:Ayelet Waldman
“My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.” EndsLawGoalLevelsDrugMassLowsCriminalsAddictDrug AddictIncarcerationChargingLow LevelMass Incarceration Author:Michael K. Williams
“The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.” Has BeensTwoWarStatesHalfPeriodsDrugMassThirdsIncreasePrisonPopulationConvictionDramaticEnginesExpansionWar On DrugsIncarcerationMass IncarcerationPrison SystemPrison Population Author:Michelle Alexander
“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 majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.” MenWayHumansWarYoungBlackJusticeWhiteRaceRightsCollegeDrugActivityMassBasesMajorityHuman RightsCriminalsAcceptedEngagedMinorsOffenseWhite ManNormJustice SystemWar On DrugsCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemBrandedMass IncarcerationFelonsOff To College Author:Michelle Alexander
“Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing, population control.” WarDrugVariousPretenseWar On DrugsIncarceration Author:Kool A.D.
“Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.” WarCountryUnderstandingTermCommunityJusticeDrugPrisonMeaningfulRealizationBarackConstructionProhibitionWar On DrugsIncarceration Author:David Simon
“I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.” PeopleThinkingCountryProblemBlackDrugPointingJustice SystemIncarceration Author:Talib Kweli