1. According to Davis, criminal behavior is automatically attributed to whom?

2. What does Davis say about "homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy?

3. Davis say this "has literally become big business." {Answer in the form of a Jeopardy question.} 4. What "must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive?"

5. What do "super-maximum prisons and in INS detention centers ... deprive imprisoned populations of?

6. What does Davis say about "[t]he dividends that accrue from investment in the punishment industry?"

7. "...the expanding penal system can ... be characterized as a "prison industrial complex" after "taking what into account ?

" THE COLOR OF IMPRISONMENT 8. Almost how many "people are currently locked up in the immense network of U.S. prisons and jails?"

9. Approximately what "percent of the imprisoned population are people of color?"

10. Approximately how many people "are directly under the surveillance of the criminal justice system?"

11. With the exception of "major wars" what "has been the most thoroughly implemented government social program of our time?"

12. What example does the author give for "racialized assumptions of criminality?"

13. Davis also argues that "the political economy of prisons relies on ... racist practices" in what three phases or areas of the criminal justice system? PROFITING FROM PRISONERS

14. Why are "prisons ... becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy?"

15. Private prisons are even less accountable to what standards?

16. What is CCA?

17. The "vast profits of ... private facilities rely on the employment" of what kind of labor? THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

18. How are the construction, architecture, and technology industries profiting from the prison industrial complex?

19. Prison labor power can be as profitable what labor? 20. What are "some of the companies that use prison labor?"

21. Why is prison labor "like a pot of gold?"

22. What are some of the jobs prisoners do "at a fraction of the cost of 'free labor?'"

DEVOURING THE SOCIAL WEALTH

23. Prison labor is compensated at what rate?

24. What does Davis say is the relationship between the penal system and social wealth? In other words, what could the "social wealth" that the penal system "devours" be used for?

25. According to Davis, what happens when "segregating people labeled as criminals?"

HIDDEN AGENDA

26. Mass incarceration is not a solution to what two concepts/issues?

27. What do historical record demonstrate about prisons?

28. According to Davis, how are "Black, Latino, Native American, and many Asian youth ... portrayed?"

29. How are "young black and Latina women ... represented?

30. Davis says that "surveillance is focused on" which groups?

31. "Social resources continue to diminish in large part because" they are "increasingly devour[ed]' by whom?

32. In the concluding sentences, Davis two things "ought to be possible." What are those two things?

SUBJECTIVE/ANALYTICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS: Compose a response to ten (10) of the following questions. In addition, provide a response to question #19.

1. What does Davis mean by "prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings?" 2. What does Davis mean when she says: "prisons disappear human beings in order to convey the illusion of solving social problems?"

3. What does Davis mean by "bodies destined for profitable punishment?"

4. How does "prioritizing discipline and security over learning in public schools located in poor communities" contribute to the "deterioration of public education?"

5. Davis says that "the imprisonment solution ...is racism, class bias, and the parasitic seduction of capitalist profit." What does this mean?

6. Wackenhut Corrections Corporation has a new name. What is it?

7. What could "corporatization of punishment" mean?

8. What do you think its mean when states are building more prisons than schools?

9. What does Davis speculate as the reason for "claims of low unemployment rates - even in black communities?"

10. What does "critical discourse" mean?

11. What does Davis mean by "ideological trickery?"

12. Davis use the word "devour" three times. What point is she attempting to make?

13. Respond to the following statement: "The prison industrial complex has thus created a vicious cycle of punishment which only further impoverishes those whose impoverishment is supposedly "solved" by imprisonment."

14. Why would some people believe "affirmative action and bilingual education [is] the end of racism?"

15. Davis says "conversations about "race relations" will hardly dismantle a prison industrial complex that thrives on and nourishes the racism hidden within the deep structures of our society." Do you agree or disagree? Please explain your response.

16. What does Davis mean by "cascading conservatism?"

17. This is Davis's final sentence: "To safeguard a democratic future, it is possible and necessary to weave together the many and increasing strands of resistance to the prison industrial complex into a powerful movement for social transformation." What exactly is the author saying? Do you agree or disagree with her? Please explain your response.

18. Locate the passages that refer to "magic" and "disappearing." What is Davis implying? How are people 'disappeared?'

19. In your own words, what points is Davis trying to make? Provide five 6-7 bullet points.