Are Prisons Obsolete?
Book • 2003
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Punishment of formerly enslaved people
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Mentioned as a common part of lynching
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone burned alive?
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As a torture method
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Are there nude scenes?
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Strip searching
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Is someone buried alive?
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An eighteenth-century punishment for sodomy
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Discussion of incarceration in psychiatric hospitals
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Is there amputation?
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Drawing and quartering
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Is there blackface?
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Discussion of white criminals using blackface to try to take the heat off themselves
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Psychotropic drugs being forced on patients in mental institutions
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Is someone restrained?
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Chain gangs
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Discussion of Charles Stuart, who killed his pregnant wife and blamed an imagined black man
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Prison cells
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Slavery
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Drug use statistics discussed
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Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Passing mention
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Is someone stabbed?
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Discussion of the stabbing of Amy Elizabeth Biehl
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Discussion of the rates of institutionalization of women as a form of incarceration that’s not often recognized as such
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Does a kid die?
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Discussion of the story of Susan Smith, who murdered her own children and made up a black person to blame the crime on
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