PRESENTED BY: EDDIE, CALEI , VONNIE, CRISTINA, CURT, AND COLLEEN

Prison Systems

History

Gangs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IRG1Ep4Htk1minute 10 seconds of MSNBC’s Lock Up Raw – Ganging Up

Tips and Tricks

What’s Right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBORSzl3NxI4 minutes of TIME Mexican prison investigation.

What’s Wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqN33RhKqtE1 minute of Prison receiving strip searches.

Prisons compared to Schools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-mYQbV48lI&feature=youtu.be2 minutes of school to prison pipeline.

Health Care in Prison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhxgkiAGKI3 minutes of man who robs bank for $1 for jail health care.

Video 1 Video 2

http://youtu.be/i7hynBLs1fU

U.S: Teens in Solitary Confinement. Human Rights Watch.

Youth In adult jail/prison

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/22/17403150-criminal-justice-systems-dark-secret-teenagers-in-solitary-confinement?lite

Socioeconomic Factors

Factors that contribute to crime and/or imprisonments Substance abuse (drugs and alcohol) Lack or education or lack of proper education (parents and

youth) Region (poverty in communities, cities, towns, urban/rural) Poverty/unemployment Lack of supervision (youth, single-parents) Racism (stereotypical thinking, unrepresented/laws,)

Children of prisoner are 5 times more likely to experience incarceration then those with both parents who haven’t been incarcerated.

Private Prisons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5EnKviqktg4 minutes on privatization of prisons.

Planning for the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRaMBppmQI5 mins 36 secs of TEDX on Sustainable Prisons

Beyond Prison

http://www.theifproject.com/

Conclusion

Prison vs. School.Impossible to keep safe.Stanford Prison Experiment.Private companies making money off of Prisoners.

Reform

References

Chuck, E., March 22, 2013. Criminal Justice Systems ‘dark secret’: Teenagers in solitary confinement. Rock Center.

Retrieved from:

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/22/17403150-criminal-justice-systems-dark-secret-teenagers-in-solitary-con

finement?lite

Locked-up for life. (n.d.). Retrieved May 15, 2013, from:

http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/04/life-without-parole-juvenile-injustice-system-infographic. (Handout)

National Juvenile Justice Network.(n.d.). Retrieved May 15, 2013, from: http://www.njjn.org/our-work/fiscal-policy-center.

Ryan, L. April 2, 2013. Social Justice. There’s No Excuse: Protect Children from Rape in Adult jails and prisons. Retrieved

from: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/05/op-ed-theres-no-excuse-protect-children-rape-adult-jails-and-prisons

Statistics on prison Population Rates.(n.d.). Retrieved May 15, 2013, from:

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-freedom/statistics-on-prisoner-population-rates/.

Throwing Away Young People: Prison Suicide. (n.d.). November 21, 2007. Retrieved from:

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/throwing-away-young-people-prison-suicide/