Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents