Instruction
MLA Paper Requirements:
• 3-4 double-spaced pages; 20 words over or under is fine
• Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, 1-inch margins on each side of the document
• Include a Title and Works Cited page
• Include a header in the upper right-hand corner of the page, listing your name followed by a space with the page number
Required Sources:
• Julia Sudbury’s “Women of Color, Globalization, and the Politics of Criminalization”
• Eric A. Stanley’s “Introduction: Fugitive Flesh: Gender Self-Determination, Queer Abolition, and Trans Resistance,” from
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (PDF)
• Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (documentary film- see Kanopy)
• One outside source (organizational report, news article, documentary, peer-reviewed article, book, zine, personal
communication)
Writing Prompt:
We have discussed how the interplay between ideologies and institutions produces social, political, and economic inequalities
for women and LGBTQI+ communities on individual, community, national, and global levels. Using the above readings, address the
following prompt in a 3-4 page, double-spaced analytical essay. Be sure to incorporate the above sources into your response and use
examples from the texts to support your claims.
• How is the prison industrial complex (PIC) shaped by ideologies about gender, sexuality, crime and punishment, and justice?
• How does the PIC (re)produce social, political, and economic inequalities for women and LGBTQI+ communities at the
individual, community, national, and global levels? Address the effects of mass incarceration and how the PIC
disproportionately targets women, people of color, queer people, and/or working class people. What is the connection between
women’s mass incarceration and the global feminization of poverty?
• Finally, discuss alternatives to the PIC (prison reform, de-carceration, abolition). Provide support for your re-imagination of
the criminal justice system building on the authors’ perspectives.