Michelle Alexander Quotes About Judging

• If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.

  Michelle Alexander

  Rights, Judging, Progress

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.15, The New Press

• Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Giving, Judging

  "Michelle Alexander: “Zimmerman Mindset” Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison & Murder". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2013.

• El complejo carcelario-industrial emplea a millones de personas directa e indirectamente. Jueces, fiscales, abogados defensores, guardias de prisiones, empresas de construcción de prisiones, policías, agentes de libertad condicional, secretarios judiciales... la lista es interminable. Muchas comunidades rurales predominantemente blancas han llegado a creer que sus economías locales dependen de las prisiones para obtener empleo.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Believe, White

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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