Understanding the Carceral System
The Prison Industrial Complex
Black Lives Matter - Part 1
Black Lives Matter - Part 2
100
According to the reading, modern policing in the U.S. can be traced back to these three historical systems: colonialism, western expansion, and this institution.
What is slavery?
100
Angela Y. Davis explains that private prisons seek this above all else, often influencing laws to fill cells.
What is profit?
100
A catalyst of the Black Lives Matter movement started in 2012 when neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, gunned down this 17 year old who was walking home from the convenience store.
Who is Trayvon Martin?
100
This device proved to be a helpful device for the Black Lives Matter movement through its ability to capture police brutality and share footage.
What is the smart phone?
200
Angela Davis argues that private prisons use a similar business model as these types of businesses that make money off of keeping rooms full.
What are hotels?
200
Angela Y. Davis compared private prisons to this kind of business, explaining that the more “rooms” are filled, the more money is made.
What is a hotel?
200
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri broke out after the body of Michael Brown was left in the street for this long after being shot by police.
What is 4 hours?
200
This African-American man was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020.
Who is George Floyd?
300
This activist and author of Are Prisons Obsolete? argues that the U.S. punishment system is deeply tied to the histories of slavery, Jim Crow, and modern mass incarceration.
Who is Angela Davis?
300
Angela Davis and other scholars argue that the prison labor system continues the legacy of slavery through this constitutional loophole of this amendment that allows involuntary servitude for those “duly convicted.”
What is the Thirteenth Amendment exception clause?
300
This phrase began being used after Eric Garner pleaded this to police while in a lethal chokehold.
What is "I Can't Breathe?"
300
Complete the Black Lives Matter slogan used after the police killing of Michael Brown. "Hands up, ____ ____!"
What is "don't shoot?"
400
This term describes the web of relationships between government, private companies, and institutions that profit from running prisons and using prison labor.
What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
400
After slavery was abolished, this system allowed states to lease prisoners—mostly Black men—to private companies for cheap labor, often under deadly conditions.
What is convict leasing?
400
The Black Lives Matter movement was started by these three black women.
Who are Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Ayo Tometi?
400
Even though Black Americans make up less than 13% of the US population, the rate at which they are shot are more than _____ the rate of white Americans.
What is double?
500
This concept describes how harsh school discipline, testing pressures, and the policing of students—especially those who are marginalized—can funnel young people directly into the criminal justice system.
What is the school-to-prison pipeline?
500
True or False, California has the highest rate of incarceration in the U.S.
False (ranked 40th)
500
The “Black Life Matters Rides” were a tradition inspired by this movement.
What is the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement?
500
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, this many protestors went out for Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
What is 15-26 million?