How did the film shape your understanding of prison system

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Problem

Watch the documentary "13th" and answer the questions below

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A. How did you feel after viewing "13th"?

B. What do you think are some of the factors that allowed this system of racial control to simply evolve and replicate itself for the past 150 years?

C. How does the film characterize our criminal justice system and political institutions?

D. How did this film shape your understanding of the prison system?

E. Was there a particular case or series of facts that altered or challenged any of your pre-existing views? Explain.

F. Were you surprised to learn about the racial underpinnings of the legislative policies that are a product of the war on drugs?

G. Considering the billions of dollars made off of the prison system, the ongoing practice of prison labor, and the cases of unjust imprisonment, what are your feelings on the current state of judicial system in the U.S.?

H. How do you think the media and popular culture portrays America's judicial and prison systems? Do you think these representations contribute to a dangerous climate of fear and misdirected anger?

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