What is Prop 6?
What was Proposition 6 trying to remove?
What is involuntary servitude as punishment for crime?
What percentage of the world's prison population is held in the U.S.?
What is about 20–25%?
Which amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for crime?
What is 13th Amendment?
Did Proposition 6 pass?
No.
Which political party supported Proposition 6?
What is the California Democratic Party?
Proposition 6 argued that increasing prison funding takes money away from what?
What is public higher education?
About how much is spent per inmate?
What is $132,860?
Name one prison job mentioned in the presentation.
What is cooking, cleaning, laundry, or maintenance?
About what percentage of Californians voted No on Prop 6?
What is about 53%?
Name the labor organization that supported Proposition 6.
What is the California Labor Federation?
According to the presentation, what larger system does Proposition 6 connect to?
What is the prison industrial complex?
Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population is African American?
What is 32%?
What historical event led to many newly freed Black people being arrested for minor offenses?
What is The Civil War?
If Prop 6 had passed, how would prison work have changed?
Prison jobs would have become voluntary. (And higher wages)
Why did the California Democratic Party support Prop 6?
Because it supported criminal justice reform and the protection of incarcerated people's rights.