Responses to week 1 and week 4

I need to make a 2 minute recording responding to each question posted at the end of each week. I will make you do 2 responses, 2 pages each, which should roughly come out to a 2 minute recording of me. the class is about prisons and politics. keep in mind to make the essay such that I can read it into a recording. the following is for week 1: The Sentencing Project, “US Prison Decline: Insufficient to Undo Mass Incarceration” https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/u-s-prison-decline-insufficient-undo-mass- incarceration/ The Sentencing Project, “The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons” https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state- prisons/ Jose Saldaña, Komrade Z, and Nadja Guyot. 2020. “Jail Release Necessary to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe Behind Bars.” Shadowproof. https://shadowproof.com/2020/03/13/release-people-from-jail-to-prevent-a-coronavirus-catastrophe- behind-bars/ Critical Resistance, “Keywords” from The Abolitionist Toolkit http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ab-Toolkit-Part-7.pdf question : what “story of incarceration” do these numbers and statistics tell? week 4: Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DVdyEo5Wzs Beyond Punishment (Miami Herald): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNfsgiJFZrY chapter 1, https://flexpub.com/preview/chained-in-silence intro and overview https://books.google.com/books/about/Resistance_Behind_Bars.html?id=N6SjF_Gzq_YC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button question : What is wrong with the idea of “gender-responsive” prisons?