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  • Prison Industrial Complexity
  • Albert Woodfox (bio) and Jackie Sumell (bio)

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This crossword puzzle is the result of several conversations between the authors, with assistance from Bruce Reilly. The key to the puzzle can be found at www.Angola3Action.org. All Power to the People.

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Across:

  1. 3. City in which more people per capita are incarcerated than any other in the world

  2. 4. Angola prison camp-J, or administrative term for punishment cell

  3. 7. Hunger strike that swept across 11 prisons in California in 2011 started here

  4. 8. Eroder of Habeus Corpus

  5. 11. Life in solitary confinement

  6. 12. Hosts inmates' poker game in a public arena with a raging bull; last inmate to remain at table ungored is winner

  7. 14. Site of successful death row hunger strike, January 2011

  8. 16. Child prisoner

  9. 17. Corporation receiving over $5 billion to build immigration detention facilities

  10. 18. Prisons

  11. 20. US Supreme Court Justice who said, "the US constitution does not protect prisoners from cruel and unusual punishment"

  12. 24. International agency that condemned solitary confinement in the US prison system

  13. 26. Oleoresin capsicum, commonly used to reprimand inmates

  14. 29. Iron/handcuffs/jewelry/shackles (colloquial)

  15. 30. Lying in court

  16. 34. Hack, freeman, guard, screw, khakiback (former)

  17. 35. State ordered by the US Supreme Court to reduce their population because overcrowding was considered "cruel and unusual punishment"

  18. 38. Issued to an inmate for alleged rule infraction

  19. 39. 250 inmates were exonerated since its court debut

  20. 40. Estimated time an inmate was left hanging by administration after committing suicide (colloquial)

  21. 42. 2.4 million people are currently incarcerated here

  22. 43. Removing a prisoner from cell using gas, batons, tazers, fists, and/or shields

  23. 45. Determines 99% of all criminal court cases

  24. 46. Common word for a "roommate" in prison

  25. 48. This attorney's 2011 book illustrates new 21st-century Jim Crow laws in the US

  26. 49. From The Bottom of the Heap author

  27. 50. Greatest force behind the growth of the US prison population

  28. 52. Number of prisoners in solitary confinement in the US (thousands)

  29. 53. Type of restraint where prisoners are handcuffed/ shackled to bed wearing football helmet and left to urinate and defecate on themselves (common in Angola Prison, LA)

  30. 54. Largest for-profit prison corporation in America

  31. 55. Incarceration rates for Black males in the US today are 6 times greater than in ________ South Africa

  32. 56. Common word for recreation area in prison (colloquial)

Down:

  1. 1. Executes more prisoners than any other state

  2. 2. J. Edgar Hoover's "most dangerous threat"

  3. 4. 93% of this US-controlled territory's prison population is Black

  4. 5. Obama reduced crack/cocaine sentencing disparity from 100 to 1, to ___________ to 1

  5. 6. Length of time, under the color of law, a prisoner can be legally held in solitary confinement

  6. 9. Executive Secretary at the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana/bound to wheelchair by FBI bullet/New Orleans-based activist-teacher

  7. 10. First in the colonized United States to use solitary confinement as a means of punishment

  8. 13. 30% of immigrant detainees are held in this US state

  9. 15. Over 75% of inmates in Angola Prison Louisiana

  10. 17. Common word for solitary confinement (colloquial)

  11. 19. More Black men are in prison than college in the US

  12. 21. Underground supermax (Colorado)

  13. 22. State-sanctioned murder

  14. 23. Person held captive in solitary confinement for the longest recorded uninterrupted time

  15. 25. State where largest prison labor strike in US history took place

  16. 27. 18,000-acre "former" slave plantation still operating under mandatory labor paradigm, paying 2-20 cents per hour

  17. 28. Live From Death Row author

  18. 31. Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace, and people's control of modern technology is the last demand of this platform

  19. 32. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox

  20. 33. Minimum number of hours spent in cell when kept in solitary confinement (CCR) in the state of Louisiana

  21. 35. Where an inmate can purchase instant coffee

  22. 36. The only state to restore voting rights to people on probation and parole through a ballot initiative

  23. 37. Illegal possession in prison

  24. 41. One of two states where you can vote in prison

  25. 44. US Constitutional Amendment...

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