Prison Studies for Middle School

This week we are finishing our unit on Mental Health and the natural transition was heading our reading into the prison system. Handouts: A Class/B Class, ppt

Introduction Learning Questions:
What is the role of prisons in society?

What are the main issues in Prison Studies?

How is the Taiwanese prison system in relation to other democratic countries?

• Women Behind Bars
• Reintegration
• School to Prison Pipeline

1. Where Mental Illness Meets The Prison System

JAILED: How should governments help people in prison with mental health issues?

	Pros	Cons
Expert counseling
Drugs
Separate prisons
Mentors
Skills training
Alternatives:?

Reading 1: Mental Health Nurses Staff UK Police Stations (A class/ B class)

Videos: Rosalynn Carter explains that jails and prisons are the largest mental health facilities in America.
Dr. Elizabeth Ford examines mental health in the prison system and the toll of incarceration.

II. Prison Escapes and Security

Reading 2: France Asks Google To Blur Internet Maps (A Class/B Class)

IV. Prison Strikes

• Attica Prison Uprising
• Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
• National Prisoners Strike

V. Prison Riots- Brazilian Massacre (Both A and B levels)

Vocabulary:

1. inmate (a prisoner)
2. dismember (cut into pieces)
3. smuggle (bring something without people knowing about it).

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Brazilian Prison Massacre – level 3

VI. Torture and Capital Punishment

1. Secret CIA Torture Prisons (A/B)
2. Pregnant Woman in Laos (A/B)
3. Capital Punishment in Utah (A/B)

VII. Progress

1. Tablets in NY(A/B)
2. Indian Repatriates Prisoners (A/B)
3. Taiwan

Taiwan Prisoner’s Kitchen

Taiwan Prison and Solar Power

RESOURCES:

12 Facts About Incarceration and Reentry, Reentry in Taiwan, Global Prison Trends 2018

PBS Prison to School Pipeline, Lesson on Prison Pipeline

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X12001295