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• Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

  Michelle Alexander

  People, Assuming, Dramatic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the body politic - and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.

  Michelle Alexander

  White, Drunk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.

  Michelle Alexander

  Drunk, Risk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

  Michelle Alexander

  Years, Prison Population, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large numbers, it must be something wrong with them. It leads young kids of color to look around and say: "There must be something wrong with me, there must be something wrong with us. Is there something inherent, something different about me, about us as a people, that leads us to fail so often, that leads us to live in these miserable conditions, that leads us to go in and out of prison?"

  Michelle Alexander

  Kids, Color, Numbers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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