Assignment

VIDEOS

The following articles describes a pattern of sexual assault and abuse at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, resulting in the suspension of 31 guards at the prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/edna-mahan-correctional-facility-abuse.html?referringSource=articleShare

The article below reports on the arrest of three in attacks at the prison

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/nyregion/nj-prison-female-inmate-abuse.html

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6G0ICwJ1Q

Reflection - Gender and Race

Reflections are to be based on the topic we are covering for the week. A reflection consists of your response to information we are reading. Was there something that prompted your thinking, created questions, or connected to knowledge or experience you have? 

Your reflection must include information from the text but can also include information from the TED talk or assigned videos.  You can also include any outside research sources. Reflection posts are to be a minimum of THREE fully developed paragraphs must include references.