Randall Robinson Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Eight, People, Community

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Men, People, Justice

• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Prison Population, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

• Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.

  Randall Robinson

  African American, Salary, Unemployment

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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