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Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

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There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.

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How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.

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You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

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I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

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Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.

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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

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African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: Unknown

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