5th period FIVE POINT PLAN

1. Decriminalize drugs
2. Good quality rehabilitation services for all inmates involved with drug crimes, including good quality mental health care, savings plans and training programs for reintegration into society
3. No mandatory minimums, life without parole, death penalty, or three-strikes laws - it must be on a case by case basis
4. No more private prisons, or private prison lobbying
5. Programs to educate police officers and law officials on civil rights and U.S. history; to make sure the justice system does not make arrests due to geography or racial profiling; ultimately lowering the rate of incarceration that stems from social inequality (i.e. lack of jobs, unemployment, health care, housing, etc)

6th period FIVE-ish POINT PLAN

1. decriminalize drugs; and after prison provide adequate rehabilitation and care programs must be   in place to help everyone out of the criminal cycle by relocating funds from the war on drugs

2. We believe that in order to correct the justice system, we must eliminate all forms of capital that 

is a result of the incarceration system; abolish private prisons and nationalize the justice system   to eliminate profit motives

(the function of prison should be rehabilitative)

(abolish mandatory minimum sentencing and the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine)

(prisoners should not be taken advantage of by companies or individuals) 

(prisoners should be educated and given fair wages while in prison) 

(fair wages in prisons with a means to transition out of prison with financial resources) 

(change the legislation surrounding the war on drugs)

TALKBACK PAPER DUE MONDAY, APRIL 25

A talkback paper allows you the space to reflect on a topic by starting with an issue that you find most pressing, and then fully exploring that issue:  its origins, its relationship to other issues, the possibilities for change, etc.  Possible questions to get you thinking and writing might include:

• What is the problem with prisons in the United States?
• How does your 5 point plan change the way we see prisoners and the prison industrial complex in the United States?
• What connections do you see between this unit and any other we’ve studied this year?

• What is the root cause of the prison-industrial complex?