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

Captive GendersGoal: Bring people in women’s prisons home to be with their familiesStrategy: Create more, smaller prisons located in more placesResult: Will this bring people in women’s prisons home?Goal: End violence against youth in prison in LouisianaStrategy: Shut down the Tallulah Youth PrisonResult: The prison was closed. Did violence in this prison stop?Goal: Decrease the number of people in prisonStrategy: “Compassionate Release” which allows for the release of terminallyill prisoners.Result: Does this decrease the number of people in prison?Goal: End abuses by prison officials who determine at will sentence lengthStrategy: Introduce mandatory sentencing minimums for specific chargesResult: Are people in prison facing shorter sentences? Are individuals able toget shorter sentences based on individual circumstance surrounding chargeswith mandatory minimums?Goal: Support people in prison who have survived violence, including sexualviolence, harassment and other abusesStrategy: Use administrative segregation as protective custodyResult: Are survivors of violence safer, cared for and/or supported and istrauma addressed in protective custody?Goal: End imprisonment violence against youth in prison in CaliforniaStrategy: Build multiple, smaller facilities throughout the stateResult: Is there/will there be less imprisonment of youth, and is there/will therebe less violence generally against youth who are locked up?Goal: End abuses against marginalized people (people of color, transpeople,queer people) by police and prison staffStrategy: Mandatory sensitivity trainings, already done for most of California’spolice force.Result: Has/will harassment, abuse and violence against these communities bystaff and police decrease(d)?Goal: End medical neglect and crowding in prisonsStrategy: Build more prisonsResult: Has this ended medical neglect and crowding?Can you think of more? How about ending the death penalty and replacingit with life in prison, or decreasing recidivism (see above) by decreasingparole and probation time or decreasing violence by creating curfews orfighting police violence by convicting individual police officers?356