" I’ve seen a man jailed for shoplifting $11.88 worth of merchandise from Walgreens. I’ve seen a woman jailed for jaywalking and running away from cops after she’d had too much to drink. If people are incarcerated for offenses like these, then nearly all of us have broken the law in ways that would land us in jail. The difference is not our capacity to commit crimes. The difference is our ability to extricate ourselves from their consequences. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration