Session 23 - Community Saving/Threat

Question 1

what is the 8th amendment

Answer 1

prohibits cruel & unusual punishment (prisoners have a right to adequate health services)

Question 2

compassionate release

Answer 2

for prisoners that have less than 6 months to live are vacated from their sentences

Question 3

medical parole

Answer 3

for prisoners with a medical condition that rendered them permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living & results in the prisoner requiring 24 hour care

Question 4

5 basic categories that constitute activities of daily living

Answer 4

1. personal hygiene
2. dressing
3. eating
4. maintaining continence
5. transferring/mobility

Question 5

school to prison pipeline

Answer 5

after implementing cops in schools, 11x more students sent to juvenile court

Question 6

SRO

Answer 6

school resource officers

Question 7

3 strikes law

Answer 7

mandatory life imprisonment if a convicted felon has been convicted in federal court of a serious violent felony & has 2 or more previous convictions in federal or state courts, at least one of which is a serious violent felony