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Guided Concept Map #10 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - With black women three times as likely as white women to be incarcerated, the raced and gendered structures of carceral systems disproportionately target black women for reproductive control
    - - Within these systems, reproductive choices are often constrained and shaped by conditions of surveillance, poverty, and vulnerability
        
        Tthe widespread use of LARCs within the carceral state can be characterized as soft sterilization
        
        in an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the involuntary sterilization law in Virginia. Following the Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell, the number of states with involuntary sterilization laws increased from 17 to 30.
- - - - Black Americans are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and disproportionately bear the physiological consequences
        
        This unequal burden contributes to racial health gaps
- - - - Private prisons are run or owned by corporations holding contracts with federal or state governments to house citizens convicted of a crime or immigrant detainees being processed for deportation
        
        private prisons have profit motives, coupled with a lack of oversight, which can create incentives to minimize costs and care for inmates
        
        The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries in the developed world that allow private entities to own prisons
  - - - Federal
    - - Private correctional institution