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+**Current orientations to the prison industrial complex are insufficient - small scale reform is needed. MANN 10/20:** |
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+Brian Mann, 10-20-2016, "Reports Of Prison Guard Brutality In New York Draw A Harsh Spotlight," NPR.org, http://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498688702/reports-of-prison-guard-brutality-in-new-york-draw-a-harsh-spotlight. LHP SG |
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+The scene: A...killed by officers. |
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+**Plan text - Resolved: The United States Supreme Court will reverse the Carrigan ruling in order to limit the current power of qualified immunity held by police officers in prisons. BELL ’99:** |
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+Cheryl Bell, Martha Coven, John P. Cronan, Christian A. Garza, Janet Guggemos, and Laura Storto. “Rape and Sexual Misconduct in the Prison System: Analyzing America 's Most ‘Open’ Secret.” 1999. Yale Law and Policy Review. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1385andcontext=ylpr LHP SG |
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+The debilitating impact...of government officials. |
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+**Contention 1 is cruel and unusual punishment.** |
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+**Prison officials get away with torture against prisoners because of current qualified immunity loopholes. SHENG ’12:** |
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+Sheng, Phillip. “An ‘Objectively Reasonable’ Criticism of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases Brought Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.” 2012. LHP MK |
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+Apart from the...of excessive force. |
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+**And, inmates are coerced to the point of suicide. GILNA ’15:** |
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+Gilna, Derek. “Supreme Court Rules Qualified Immunity Shields Prison Officials from Suicide Claim.” Prison Legal News – Human Rights. July 31, 2015. LHP MK |
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+In what can...Circuit was reversed. |
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+**Only court reform like the aff can solve - it usurps the legitimacy of legal constructs and spurs reform. BELL 2:** |
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+Cheryl Bell. Martha Coven. John P. Cronan. Christian A. Garza. Janet Guggemos. “Rape and Sexual Misconduct in the Prison System: Analyzing America 's Most "Open" Secret.” Yale Law and Policy Review. 1999. LHP MK |
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+Another seemingly impervious...of government officials. |
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+**The plan prevents lower court confusion which helps with rights claims on a larger basis. STEFAN ’16:** |
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+Lindsey De Stefan. “‘No Man Is Above the Law and No Man Is Below It:’ How Qualified Immunity Reform Could Create Accountability and Curb Widespread Police Misconduct.” The article claims it’s from 2017 but let’s just go 2016 to be safe. Seton Hall University. http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1861andcontext=student_scholarship. LHP SG |
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+Altering the qualified...the citizenpolice relationship. |
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+**Contention 2 is sexual abuse** |
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+**The right from sexual abuse isn’t ‘clearly established’ which causes it to perpetuate in prisons. The plan solves. BUCHANAN ’07:** |
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+Buchanan, Kim Shayo. “Impunity: Sexual Abuse in Women’s Prisons.” Harvard University. 2007. LHP MK |
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+Prison guards and...liability might overdeter. |
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+**The impact of sexual assault cannot be isolated by singular causal claims, they transcend throughout ontology. STARS:** |
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+Sexual Assault and Assault Response Services (STARS). “Effects of Sexual Assault.” No Date. LHP MK |
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+Sexual assault is...of the trauma. |
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+**Limiting qualified immunity causes a flood of litigation - catalyzes reform. BUCHANAN 2:** |
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+Buchanan, Kim Shayo. “Impunity: Sexual Abuse in Women’s Prisons.” Harvard University. 2007. LHP MK |
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+A second, related...bring about reform. |
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+**Framework** |
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+**The standard is minimizing structural oppression, defined as promoting the material conditions necessary for inclusion. Debate is a space for real world change, but we have to consider tangible policy action above all else. CURRY ’14:** |
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+Dr. Tommy J. Curry 14, “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century”, Victory Briefs, 2014 |
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+Despite the pronouncement...tendencies and politics. |
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+**And, it precludes the possibility of any legitimate ethical theorizing - it mitigates moral agency. WINTER AND LEIGHTON ’99:** |
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+Winter and Leighton ‘99 Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." 1999 |
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+Finally, to recognize...building lasting peace. |
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+**You as a judge have an obligation to help catalyze reform of the prison industrial complex. RODRIGUEZ ’10:** |
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+Dylan Rodriguez. “The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position.” Radical Teacher, Number 88, Summer 2010, pp. 7-19 (Article). University of Illinois Press. |
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+A compulsory deferral...of social movement). |
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+**Combination of framing and policy is necessary to take it down. BERGER ’13:** |
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+2013, Dan Berger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, “Social Movements and Mass Incarceration: What is To Be Done?”, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 15, Issue 1-2, 2013, pages 3-18 |
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+The strategy of...its political vision. |
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+**The aff methodology for confronting structural violation is reforming the prison industrial complex. This allows for inclusion. LOYD ’11:** |
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+Faculty Fellow in the Humanities @ Syracuse University Dr. Jenna M. Loyd, (PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley. Has held postdoctoral positions with the Island Detention project in the Department of Geography @ Syracuse University, the Center for Place, Culture and Politics @ CUNY Graduate Center, and in the Humanities Center @ Syracuse University) “American Exceptionalism, Abolition and the Possibilities for Nonkilling Futures,” Nonkilling Geography, Edited by: James Tyner and Joshua Inwood (2011) |
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+The relative invisibility...or peace organizing. |
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+**Underview** |
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+**1 Analytic** |
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+**2 State good:** |
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+**a) Critique is otherwise useless. BRYANT ’12:** |
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+Bryant 12 Levi Bryant (Professor of Philosophy at Collin College) “A Critique of the Academic Left” 2012 https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/ |
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+Unfortunately, the academic...distribution of medicines, etc., etc., etc. |
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+**b) it’s inevitable. MAKANI 2k:** |
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+Makani 2k. Themba-Nixon, Makani. Executive Director of The Praxis Project, Former California Staffer, Colorlines. Oakland: Jul 31, 2000.Vol.3, Iss. 2; pg. 12 |
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+The flourish and...making it so. |
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+**3-5 analytic** |