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What is the Penal System?
Harsh and legal punishment occur here. This is another word for Prison.
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Who is Michelle Alexander?
This person is a civil rights advocate and professor of Theology. They are very well known for their book about Mass Incarceration.
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What is the Equal Justice Initiative?
A non-profit organization, based in Montgomery, Alabama, that provides legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes.
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What is the Case of the Central Park 5?
A criminal case that indicted 5 New York Boys in the United States over the aggravated assault and rape of a white woman jogging through the park during a series of reported attacks in Manhattan's Central Park on April 19, 1989.
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What is Criminal Justice?
This is a “delivery” of justice to those who have been committed of a crime.
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Who is Assata Shakur?
Which prominent figure of the Black Liberation Army was placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and granted political asylum in Cuba?
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What is the Innocence Project?
A nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who it claims have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system.
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What is the Case of Walter McMillian?
The case of a man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white woman who worked as a clerk in a dry-cleaning store. He was held on death row before being convicted and sentenced to death.
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What is Probation?
This is a process/period where someone has been released from prison and is subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
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Who is Cece McDonald?
This activist had been imprisoned for retaliation against transphobic and racist comments against them. They later co-produced a show with Laverne Cox drawing attention to the systemic social ill of transphobia and fights to end the prison-industrial complex.
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What is the Sentencing project?
A Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy center working to reduce the use of incarceration in the United States and to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
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Who is George Stinney?
A 14-year-old African-American who was convicted in 1944 of murdering two white girls and was sentenced to execution by electrocution. He is the youngest person to ever be put on Death Row.
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What is a Plea Bargain/Deal?
This is an agreement between the prosecutor and defendant, whereby the defendant agrees they are guilty.
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Who is Patrisse Cullors?
This person is a co-founder of the BLM Movement and founded an organization called, Dignity & Power Now, after experiencing the harsh effects that incarceration has on family members of those incarcerated.
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What is the Vera Institute of Justice?
Founded in 1961, is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization in the United States.
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Who is Bobby Seale?
An original member of the "Chicago Eight" who was charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot in the wake of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He said, "To be a Revolutionary is to be an Enemy of the state.”
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What is Mass incarceration?
This is comparatively and historically known for its extreme rates of imprisonment and concentration of imprisonment of Black & Brown bodies.
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Who is Fred Hampton?
This person was a part of the Chicago Black Panther Party and was a revolutionary socialist. They organized rallies, established a Free Breakfast program, and negotiated a peace pact among rival gangs. In December of 1969, they were assassinated by the police/FBI.
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What is The Justice Project?
A nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting injustice and to create a more humane and just world.
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Who Is Anthony Porter?
A Chicago resident who is known for having been exonerated in 1999 of the murder in 1982 of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983 and served 17 years on death row. This man's conviction was vacated after the court found the tactics used by the private investigator were not legal.
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