13th Documentary | Are prisons obsolete? | Skid Row Documentary | Salem |
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What is the country with the greatest prison population?
United States
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What is Angelia Davis's stance on the prison system?
they are obsolete
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Where is Skid Row located?
Downtown Los Angeles
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Where does Salem live?
Culver City
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What percent of the worlds prisoners does the US Hold?
25%
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What is the U.S prison population?
2 Million
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What is the main issues the inhabitants of Skid Row face?
Drugs abuse and mental illness
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How old is Salem?
26?
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What president launched the US Governments war on drugs?
Richard Nixon
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What is the worst form of punishment imaginable according to Davis?
Solitary Confinement
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What is the number of men and women living on Skid Row?
11,000
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What animal does Salem have?
dawg
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What drug carried a much greater sentence than cocaine during the Nixon presidency?
Crack
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What is the ratio of convicted black men between the ages of 20 - 29 compared to the overall population of black men?
1:3 (32.2%)
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What is the number of blocks that separates Skid Row from high income communities?
1-2 blocks
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Where did Hugh and Salem bump into each other?
Sex Shop
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What was the 3 strike law?
Sentence in which punishment is increased for repeated offenders and results in life in prison after 3 strikes
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What is the state with the largest women's prison in the world?
California (more then 3500 prisoners)
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What was the goal of LAMP?
drop in center for the mentally ill who live on Skid Row
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What did Hugh buy according to Salem?
Boner Pills
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