School to Prison Pipeline
Policing
The War on Drugs
Mass Incarceration
Potpourri
100
A policy that punishes students for almost all infractions
What is zero tolerance?
100
A police practice of questioning people on the street?
What is stop and frisk?
100
The president that first declared a "war on drugs"
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
The estimated number of people in US prison?
What is 2 million?
100
An alternative way to deal with conflict in schools
What is restorative justice?
200
The race/ethnicity of students most likely to be expelled?
What is black?
200
The practice of providing police departments with army style weapons and equipment
What is militarization?
200
New York State laws that greatly increased the prison sentence for drug related offenses
What are the Rockefeller Drug Laws?
200
Prison over population can lead to rebellion like the one at this prison near Buffalo, NY?
What is Attica?
200
The reason many black men cannot vote in this country
What is felon disenfranchisement?
300
A "safety" device many inner-city students face each school morning
What is a metal detector?
300
The Constitutional amendment that restricts the police's power to search you or your property
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
The judicial practice of punishing people differently for use different forms of the same drug?
What is the "crack/cocaine disparity?
300
The practice of separating a person from others in a prison
What is "solitary confinement"?
300
Truth-in-sentencing laws require offenders to serve a substantial portion of their prison sentence, usually what percentage of it.
What is 85 percent?
400
An economic injustice the feeds the school to prison pipeline
What is poverty?
400
A policing strategy that targets low level offenses in a community?
What is "broken windows policing"?
400
In a recent memo, this U.S. Attorney General said he wants to restart the war on drugs
Who is Sessions?
400
The group of people that control when most people are released from prison
What is the parole board?
400
The prison sentence that has replaced the death penalty in many states
What is life without the possibility of parole?
500
In NYC, the police officers in schools are called
What are "school safety officers?
500
The illegal practice that a NYPD officer used resulting in the death of Eric Garner
What is a choke hold?
500
More than 200,000 students have lost eligibility to financial aid for college because of this
What is a drug conviction?
500
Companies the G.E.O and Corrections Corporation of America are examples of this reality
What is prison privatization?
500
The "war" declared by President Nixon that led to mass incarceration
What is the "war on drugs"
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