Ty Dolla Sign Quotes

There are poor people of color in this country whose bodies, locked in cages, enrich the prison-industrial complex.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

We think it's OK for us to have the world's largest prison population and for one racial group to be overrepresented therein.

Prisons are a growth industry in a country that has stopped building schools because we would rather not pay our property taxes. And we seem remarkably comfortable with a criminal-justice system that locks up and "disappears" people we fear or hold in contempt — with prisons as closets to hide our unmentionables and as factories for processing spare human parts until there is nothing left but waste.

Everybody in Detroit knows somebody who is in prison…. In Detroit, most of us are one incident from being locked up.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

The jails and prisons are the new insane asylums. That’s what we are.

Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex,

The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us.

I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

We have 2.2 million people in prison. It’s a national disgrace.

Never before has a supposedly free country denied basic liberty to so many of its citizens. In December 2006, some 2.25 million persons were being held in the nearly 5,000 prisons and jails that are scattered across America’s urban and rural landscapes…. On average, state inmates have fewer than 11 years of schooling. They are also vastly disproportionately black and brown.

The primary contact between Black men and the government today is the prison system.

We have too many Black men in jail waiting for justice and too many Black women in church waiting for Jesus.