Please watch the two videos using the provided links and answer each question pertaining to its video as listed below. Answer the questions in numerical order following this format:
– Video #1: https://youtu.be/SuCFj4JXioI
Are Prisons Obsolete? Review – Radical Reviewer
1. Explain the relationship between corporations, jobs, communities, and criminalization.
2. How do prisons reproduce inequality?
3. What arguments does Davis present to support the idea the prisons are racist institutions?
4. Describe the historical transformation of punishment from one of pubilc spectacle to one of private reform.
5. What were the 2 original goals of prisons and how are they failing?
6. How are prison practices gendered?
7. What is the prison industrial complex?
8. What is your reaction to the clip from the training video made for guards?
9. What are some examples of abolitionist alternatives?
– Video #2: https://youtu.be/aB-LsYyMFWI
Democracy Now: Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the War on Drugs and Why Social Movements Shouldn’t Wait on Obama
10. Why did President Obama wait until his second term to address the prison system?
11. What the is primary critique of prison reforms made by prison abolitionists? (In other words, what the difference between a reformer and an abolitionist?)
12. Describe the conditions that led to the increase of the prison population in the 1980s?
13. How have the public’s and policymakers’ attitudes changed in regard to the War on Drugs?
14. What other industrial complex does Davis propose as an important one to examine when attempting to understand drug addiction?
15. Why shouldn’t we just focus on private prisons? Why is an economic analysis of public prisons also important?
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