Ron Triggs

Annotated bibliography

5/06/19

Professor FRG

Climate Justice, Gender, and Digital Media

McCray, Rebecca. “Mapping Police Violence.” Mapping Police Violence. 2017, mappingpoliceviolence.org/.

Rebecca discusses the ways that black people are killed and impacted by police and state violence at a disporportinate rate when compared to their white counterparts. The purpose of Rebecca’s article is to reveal the rate that black people are being killed by police and to get people to demand action from their representatives to end police violence. Her target audience is black and brown people because we are the main targets of police violence and should be the people leading the fight against police violence. I enjoyed the way she used charts that would keep her research “credible” but also be accessible to the who she is attempting to mobilize. I would improve the article by giving people the next steps.

BERND, CANDICE, et al. "Earth Island Journal." America’s Toxic Prisons. July 2017, earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/americas_toxic_prisons 

The authors of America’s Toxic Prisons focuses on discussing the ways that prisons impacts prisoners health in a negative way. The author argues that we must not put a prison in a location just because it is the “only” thing the land could be used for. I believe that the article could be improved by including more statistics around the diseases and infections that people develop while they are imprisoned and by including more statistics about the number of people developing illnesses while imprisoned. I liked the fact that the article focused on the need of the earth and individuals to be healthy and sacred. I would include this source in my research because it has valuable statistics.

Smith, J. Carlee. “Inmates: Our Defenders in Disaster.” Natural Hazards Center. January 2017, hazards.colorado.edu/article/inmates-our-defenders-in-disaster.

Smith discusses the ways that prisoners are used as additional support during natural disasters like hurricanes. The author explains how we imagine prison labor verses the actual labor and ways that prisoners lives are put at risk especially during hurricanes. I enjoyed the ways that the author included a few mini cartoons related to the purpose of the article. This makes the articles accessible to a wider audience. I would include this article in my research because it gives credit to the places where it found its research.

Herman, Susan. “ACLU Report Details Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Hurricane Katrina.” American Civil Liberties Union. August 2006, www.aclu.org/news/aclu-report-details-horrors-suffered-orleans-parish-prisoners-wake-hurricane-katrina.

The ACLU discusses the ways that New Orleans prisons did not evacuate the prisons during hurricane Katrina leading prisoners to suffer through chest-high water with sewage and little to no food. The ACLU claims that we need to call for a full investigation into the Louisiana correctional facilities. I would improve this article by including solutions and alternatives to the current process that correction facilities follow more procedures that we want to see especially during natural disasters and when people's lives are on the line. I would improve this article by giving interviews with people who survived so people can understand how terrible the conditions were. I would include this in my paper because it is a credible source because it's from an organization

“Criminal Justice Fact Sheet.” NAACP. 2015,www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/.

The NAACP discusses the disparities and trends in America’s incarceration rates and the system that supports the imprisonment of people of color. I enjoyed the way that the article was straight to the point and put all the central ideas into bullet points. I would improve the article by putting some charts and graphs because it makes some of the information stick in readers minds longer. The audience for the article is black and brown people of color. I would use this in my research because it would allow me to achieve my purpose.