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From the Ted Talk by Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi: The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

RS: So I think it depends on the definition of _________. So communities that have been targeted by our criminal legal system for generations, ___________ of _____, low-income communities, marginalized communities, women across the _______, they are more than happy to see us come, because we are just an immediate lifeline. Bail funds are a tool to get people out as an immediate lifeline, it's not a long-term, systemic answer, right? But people are, of course, they want to get out, go back to their families, their communities want them home. Has there been some opposition? Sure, of course. You know, when we go into a new site, we do so carefully, we prospect it carefully, we try to understand who are our partners on the ground that might help us in this initiative, grassroots __________, not-for-profit organizations, systems _______, ________, right? Who is going to support us and who our opposition might be.

Solution

  1. organizers
  2. color
  3. communities
  4. holders
  5. country
  6. community
  7. sheriffs

Original Text

RS: So I think it depends on the definition of community. So communities that have been targeted by our criminal legal system for generations, communities of color, low-income communities, marginalized communities, women across the country, they are more than happy to see us come, because we are just an immediate lifeline. Bail funds are a tool to get people out as an immediate lifeline, it's not a long-term, systemic answer, right? But people are, of course, they want to get out, go back to their families, their communities want them home. Has there been some opposition? Sure, of course. You know, when we go into a new site, we do so carefully, we prospect it carefully, we try to understand who are our partners on the ground that might help us in this initiative, grassroots organizers, not-for-profit organizations, systems holders, sheriffs, right? Who is going to support us and who our opposition might be.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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criminal justice 7
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justice reform 3
bail project 3
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public defender 2
immigration status 2
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release people 2
bail reform 2
system operates 2
bringing people 2
local jail 2
worthy goal 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
criminal legal system 10
revolving bail fund 3
criminal justice reform 3

Important Words

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  2. bail
  3. carefully
  4. color
  5. communities
  6. community
  7. country
  8. criminal
  9. definition
  10. depends
  11. families
  12. funds
  13. generations
  14. grassroots
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  16. happy
  17. holders
  18. home
  19. initiative
  20. legal
  21. lifeline
  22. marginalized
  23. opposition
  24. organizations
  25. organizers
  26. partners
  27. people
  28. prospect
  29. sheriffs
  30. site
  31. support
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  35. targeted
  36. tool
  37. understand
  38. women