- Prison Industrial Complexity
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3. City in which more people per capita are incarcerated than any other in the world
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4. Angola prison camp-J, or administrative term for punishment cell
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7. Hunger strike that swept across 11 prisons in California in 2011 started here
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8. Eroder of Habeus Corpus
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11. Life in solitary confinement
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12. Hosts inmates' poker game in a public arena with a raging bull; last inmate to remain at table ungored is winner
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14. Site of successful death row hunger strike, January 2011
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16. Child prisoner
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17. Corporation receiving over $5 billion to build immigration detention facilities
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18. Prisons
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20. US Supreme Court Justice who said, "the US constitution does not protect prisoners from cruel and unusual punishment"
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24. International agency that condemned solitary confinement in the US prison system
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26. Oleoresin capsicum, commonly used to reprimand inmates
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29. Iron/handcuffs/jewelry/shackles (colloquial)
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30. Lying in court
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34. Hack, freeman, guard, screw, khakiback (former)
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35. State ordered by the US Supreme Court to reduce their population because overcrowding was considered "cruel and unusual punishment"
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38. Issued to an inmate for alleged rule infraction
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39. 250 inmates were exonerated since its court debut
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40. Estimated time an inmate was left hanging by administration after committing suicide (colloquial)
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42. 2.4 million people are currently incarcerated here
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43. Removing a prisoner from cell using gas, batons, tazers, fists, and/or shields
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45. Determines 99% of all criminal court cases
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46. Common word for a "roommate" in prison
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48. This attorney's 2011 book illustrates new 21st-century Jim Crow laws in the US
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49. From The Bottom of the Heap author
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50. Greatest force behind the growth of the US prison population
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52. Number of prisoners in solitary confinement in the US (thousands)
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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)
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54. Largest for-profit prison corporation in America
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55. Incarceration rates for Black males in the US today are 6 times greater than in ________ South Africa
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56. Common word for recreation area in prison (colloquial)
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1. Executes more prisoners than any other state
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2. J. Edgar Hoover's "most dangerous threat"
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4. 93% of this US-controlled territory's prison population is Black
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5. Obama reduced crack/cocaine sentencing disparity from 100 to 1, to ___________ to 1
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6. Length of time, under the color of law, a prisoner can be legally held in solitary confinement
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9. Executive Secretary at the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana/bound to wheelchair by FBI bullet/New Orleans-based activist-teacher
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10. First in the colonized United States to use solitary confinement as a means of punishment
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13. 30% of immigrant detainees are held in this US state
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15. Over 75% of inmates in Angola Prison Louisiana
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17. Common word for solitary confinement (colloquial)
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19. More Black men are in prison than college in the US
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21. Underground supermax (Colorado)
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22. State-sanctioned murder
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23. Person held captive in solitary confinement for the longest recorded uninterrupted time
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25. State where largest prison labor strike in US history took place
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27. 18,000-acre "former" slave plantation still operating under mandatory labor paradigm, paying 2-20 cents per hour
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28. Live From Death Row author
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31. Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace, and people's control of modern technology is the last demand of this platform
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32. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox
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33. Minimum number of hours spent in cell when kept in solitary confinement (CCR) in the state of Louisiana
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35. Where an inmate can purchase instant coffee
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36. The only state to restore voting rights to people on probation and parole through a ballot initiative
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37. Illegal possession in prison
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41. One of two states where you can vote in prison
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44. US Constitutional Amendment...