Stanley-Eric-Captive-Genders-Trans-Embodiment-and-Prison-Industrial-Complex

Critical Resistance’s Introduction to the Prison Industrial ComplexPicturing the PIC ExerciseWhat you need:For Part 1: Flip chart/Big PaperFor Part 2: Concentric Circles drawn on big paper minus the list of PIC elementterms, terms sticky notes, blank sticky notes, copies of CR LA Concentric CirclesHandout (see below for more)What you do:This section of the workshop has two parts: 1) a PIC brainstorm, and 2) the PICConcentric Circles.Part 1: PIC shout outSet up: Have a piece of big paper up, and some markers. Shout out anyand all parts of the prison industrial complex that you can think of.How it works:1. As you shout out parts of the PIC, write them up on the big paper.Be specific, and don’t use language that empowers the PIC (i.e. don’t usecrime, use harm instead; don’t use criminal/inmate, use people in prisoninstead. For CR’s Thoughts on Language, go to their website.2. After about 10 minutes, end the brainstorm and take a look at theboard. What connections do you see?Make sure there is a good range of parts of the PIC up. It should cover policing,imprisonment, and surveillance, for example. It should have structures(white supremacy, patriarchy), and institutions (courts, corporatemedia) and interests (investment banks, politicians).Part 2: Concentric CirclesIt can also be helpful to look at all these parts of the PIC in a more systematicway. To do that, CR’s LA chapter developed the following concentriccircle exercise.345