Human Rights

What is discrimination?

• being prejudice toward someone or something

• the practice of unfairly treating a person/group differently from others

• the process of depriving someone of human qualities

What is mass incarceration?

• The way that the U.S. locks up a large number of people in jails, prisons or detention facilities

• The way that the U.S. locks up a small number of people in jails, prisons or detention facilities

• A period of supervision over a person convicted of a crime, ordered by the court instead of serving time in jail or prison

List at least 3 human rights examples

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This is the state of being held in jail or prison; imprisonment

• Mass Incarceration

• Prison

• Jail

• Incarceration

What are human rights?

• basic rights that does not belong to every person in the world

• basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world

• anything a person can do in the world without getting a trouble

• right to life and liberty

What is the difference between jail and prison?

• Jail is for teens 18 and older

• Prison is typically shorter sentences/waiting trial

  Jail is for incarcerated people serving longer sentences

• Jail is typically shorter sentences/waiting trial

  Prison is for incarcerated people serving longer sentences

• Jail and prison is for a person who agrees to plead guilty to certain charges

In the film clip, the presenters described ways that formerly incarcerated people are discriminated against after being released from prison. What were some of the ways they described?

What is solitary confinement?

• A type of imprisonment in which a person is isolated from the rest of prison population

• A type of imprisonment in which a person is not isolated from the rest of prison population

• A type of imprisonment that allows inmates to engage with the general public

• A type of imprisonment that is pleasant

Dehumanization is . . .

• concept that categorizes individuals based on the color of their skin

• treating someone with the utmost respect

• treating someone in a degrading manner

• to state that something is true or that is exists

In the film clip, Johnny Perez described some of the ways that the justice system dehumanized him? What were some of these methods?