Definitions
Imprisoned or confined
What is incarcerated?
What is "a local jail"?
(depriving incarcerated people of services like education and vocational training which are available in most prisons)
What are cancer and heart disease?
This country has the highest prison rates in the world
What is the United States of America?
(at 724 people per 100,000)
Prisoners are at the highest risk of death during this phase of incarceration
What is "the first 72 hours after being arrested"?
an institution used to confine people awaiting trial and those sentenced for low level crimes
What is jail?
Most jails and prisons in Louisiana are not fully air-conditioned. In fact, ___ out of 8 state prisons are fully air-conditioned.
What is 1?
(The Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women is the only state-run facility that is fully air-conditioned.)
This percentage of released prisoners stay out of prison
What is 23%?
This is the amount of prisoners in the United States of America
What is "more than 2.2 million"?
Solitary confinement, also known as "the hole", is an isolated steel or concrete cage which prisoners are held in for upwards of 22 hours. This many people are locked in isolation each day
What is 55,000 to 62,500?
(4.5% of people in state prisons)
What is prison?
The dimensions of an average prison cell in the United States (in square feet)
What is 48 square feet (6 feet by 8 feet)?
Transitional Work Programs are offered to prisoners who are nearing the end of their prison term. These prisoners leave during the day to work but only receive this amount (%) of their earnings
What is 35%?
(65% of their wages go to the jail)
The United States prison system costs approximately this amount per year
What is $80 billion?
In Louisiana, about this many children have an incarcerated parent
What is "1 out of 12 (over 90,000)"?
(more than 800,000 parents are incarcerated across the US)
a section within a prison where individuals who have been sentenced to death are housed and awaiting their execution
The layout of a typical prison cell
What is a bunk bed, chair and desk, sink, and toilet?
(some cells have a small window)
Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary, prisoners can be required to tend to the fields of the prison's plantation due to this law
What is the 13th Amendment?
(permitting slavery "as a punishment for crime")
This amount of people die in the United States prison system each day
What is 12?
Incarcerated people have a ____(%) chance of having a cell to themself
What is 5%?
(95% will a prisoner share a 48sqft cell)
the belief that all people hold a special value that's tied solely to their humanity
What is human dignity?
Maximum security prisons may allow non contact visits under these conditions
What is the requirement of leg and wrist shackles as well as a thick plate of glass to separate prisoners from visitors?
Prisoners perform menial labor such as laundry, maintenance, janitorial services, cooking, and landscaping for their hourly wage of ____
What is 10 cents?
People arrested but not convicted are in "this" period. The rate of Louisiana prisoners in "this" period is twice that of the national average.
What is the "pretrial" period?
(People arrested but unable to post bail are held in local jails)
Prisoners in maximum security typically spend __ hours a day in their cell.
What is 23?
(they are allowed 1 hour of exercise in a different enclosure or cell at least 5 days a week)