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From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline

Published Date: April 7, 2014

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall
Date: 2014
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  • The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system’s direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets contributing to unnecessary expulsions, leaving youth vulnerable to the streets and, ultimately, behind bars. From Education to Incarceration is a must-read for parents, teachers, law enforcement, judges, lawyers, administrators, and activists concerned with and involved in the juvenile justice and school system. The contributors are leading scholars in their fields and experts on the school-to-prison pipeline.

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Foreword
William Ayers

Preface
Frank Hernandez

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction –
Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall

PART I.
THE RISE OF AN IMPRISONING YOUTH CULTURE

CHAPTER ONE
Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline
Nancy A. Heitzeg

CHAPTER TWO
The Schoolhouses as Jailhouses
Annette Fuentes

CHAPTER THREE
Changing the Lens: Moving Away from the School to Prison Pipeline
Damien Sojoyner

PART II.
TARGETING YOUTH

CHAPTER FOUR
Punishment Creep and the Crisis of Youth in the Age of Disposability
Henry Giroux

CHAPTER FIVE
Targets for Arrest
Jesselyn McCurdy

CHAPTER SIX
Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events
Four Arrows

CHAPTER SEVEN
Emerging from Our Silos: Coalition Building for Black Girls
Maisha Winn and Stephanie Franklin

PART III.
SPECIAL EDUCATION IS SEGREGATION

CHAPTER EIGHT
Warehousing, Imprisoning and Labeling Youth, “Minorities”
Nekima Levy-Pounds

CHAPTER NINE
Who wants to be Special? Pathologization and the Preparation of Bodies for Prison
Deanna Adams and Erica Meiners

CHAPTER TEN
The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and for a Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy
Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha

PART IV.
BEHIND THE WALLS

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Prisons of Ignorance
Mumia Abu-Jamal

CHAPTER TWELVE
At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated?
Deborah Appleman, Ezekiel Caligiuri, and Jon Vang

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Transformative Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action
Anthony J. Nocella II

PART V.
TRANSFORMATIVE ALTERNATIVES

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Back on the Block: Community Re-entry and the Re-integration of Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Don C. Sawyer III and Daniel White Hodge

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Youth in Transition and School Re-entry: Process, Problems and Preparation
Anne Burns Thomas

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Dialogue on School Policy from a Parent of Incarcerated Youth
Letitia Basford, Bridget Borer, and Joe Lewis

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Youth of Color Fight Back: Transforming Our Communities
Emilio Lacques and Leslie Mendoza

Afterword
Bernardine Dohrn

Contributors’ Biographies
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:

“This book provides a serious and necessary investigation and critique of an inhumane and morally bankrupt system. The combination of a broken education system and a for-profit prison system leaves innocent kids to fend for themselves. From Education to Incarceration cuts through the propaganda and exposes the complexity of issues that contribute to one of America’s biggest problems. This book will arouse the passions and incite a righteous indignation.”

– Dr. Jason Del Gandio, author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists

“At a moment when racial justice language is too frequently co-opted by corporations selling easy solutions, this collection provides a much needed jolt of fearlessness, unapologetic truth-telling, and outrage. This book will be a valuable resource for activists combating the classroom-to-prison pipeline, and a vital corrective for an education debate that too often avoids confronting the full complexity of injustice in our educational and criminal justice systems. ”

– Steve Fletcher, Executive Director at Minnesota 2020

“In a world where ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ is too easily another meme emptied of meaning, this book unveils the violence perpetuated on youth through dehumanizing educational policies and the racism, market ideology and surveillance culture from which they emerge. Written with clarity and passion, readers will be moved to outrage and action.”

– Dr. Barbara Madeloni, www.cantbeneutral.org

“An impressive contribution to policy discussions on the facts and myth of school violence and safer schools for children by notable experts and scholar-activists. The contributors demonstrate effectively that in the post Columbine era, political litmus tests of “zero tolerance” amount to “zero logic”— they represent imprisonization and militarization strategies of staggering proportions. Helpfully, authors point to alternative, peaceful models, to schools that opt out of “zero tolerance” and refuse to dehumanize children of color. An important book for anybody concerned about the state of education in the United States.”

– Dr. Mechthild Nagel, co-editor of “Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality”

“How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that questions and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can upend these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant and eminently readable book.”

– Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

“This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it, and take back our schools!”

– Dr. Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles

“Moving us beyond simple rhetoric and buzzwords, From Education to Incarceration is a powerful treatise for transformative schools, offering vital perspectives and revolutionary alternatives from some of our time’s most influential thinkers on the subject of schools and mass incarceration. This compilation is a must read for anyone passionate about social justice and education in the United States.”

– Jamie Utt, Diversity and Inclusion Educational Consultant

“Activists oppose oil pipelines as environmental death sentences; they confront transport that pushes profits and products before life with the clear understanding that to destabilize a healthy environment is suicidal. The school to prison pipeline is also life-threatening: There is the free, vibrant child who blossoms; there is the caged, captive child who withers. From Education to Incarceration reminds us that the only adequate response to children’s exploitation and violation, in school and out, is to protect our most precious natural resources with profound courage and love.”

– Dr. Joy James, author of “Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture”

“State Property—that’s what you are in prison, and that’s what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and gives on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and “put your bodies upon the gears.”

– Dr. Emery Petchauer, author of “Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment”

“The authors, activists, and educators who gather their voices for From Education to Incarceration paint a clear, devastating picture of the way systems and the people who profit from their corruption create and then target disenfranchised youth. But what makes this book unique is that they do more: they equip us with the tools to fight back. That is invaluable, and why everybody who cares about youth should read this book.”

– Dr. Paul C. Gorski, author of “Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap”

“School-to-prison pipeline is not a metaphor for research, it describes the brutal realities of imprisonment and the injustice, impoverishment and racism integral to it. The activists and educators collaborating in this powerful project help us understand how the once dystopian prospects of prisons-for-profit, the normalisation of surveillance, the criminalisation of youth and routine legal violence have become part of everyday experience, albeit one partially hidden from advantaged groups.”

Dr. Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University

The criminalization of youth behavior is a form violence and oppression common mainly at poor school communities. This much needed book exposes these practices and we hope it will contribute to put an end to the school to prison pipeline.

– Dr. César A. Rossatto, editor of “Teaching for a Global Community: Overcoming the Divided and Conquer Strategies of the Oppressor”

“Nocella, Parmar, and Stovall have assembled an impressive group of authors for this amazing collection. While the fearful defenders of corporate rule will condemn the critical linkage of scholarship and activism represented here, anyone who still believes in a humanist vision of hope will find these essays invaluable for contemplating the scale of the challenges ahead.”

– Dr. David Gabbard, co-editor of “Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools”

“From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline addresses a complex, entrenched and socially debilitating issue, one that needs to be placed within the context of inequitable power relations, social (in)justice, neoliberalism and the position of the United States as a world hegemonic force. The editors have skillfully brought together a range of scholars and activists to examine and critique the meaning of incarcerating such unparalleled numbers of society, and have honed their gaze on the disproportionate and insidious reality about who is victimized, how, and. importantly, the linkage to and through education. This is an important book for those concerned with seeing education become a pillar of the solution to diminish imprisonment as a viable strategy to constructing a society as opposed to being a cause of marginalization and disenfranchisement.”

– Paul R. Carr, Lakehead University, Orillia

“From Education to Incarceration presents an extremely timely examination of the connections between schooling and the atrocities of the modern prison industrial complex. Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall have assembled a text that not only presents the problems with a “prison” system but also offers helpful examples for how we, as educators, can reclaim education from the clutches of neoliberal schooling.

– Dr. John Lupinacci, Washington State University, Editor of Green Theory and Praxis Journal

“Public schooling is divided along razor sharp lines. Schools do skills training, and depending on where a child is, some limited intellectual training. In public schools, the key issues of life: work, production and reproduction, rational knowledge, and freedom, are virtually illegal. The shorting machine of schools serves to train the next generation of workers from pre-med or pre-law in affluent neighbourhoods, to pre-middle class teacher training and for many in urban and rural areas pre-military schooling and pre-prison education. Contributors to Education to Incarceration describe and decontruct how for many students the promise of public education is merely bigger cages and longer chains.”

– Dr. E. Wayne Ross, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia

As a social worker that mentors and consults youth on probation, I have been in desperate need of a book that articulates all the problems of schools and the juvenile justice system to city policy makers. From Education to Incarceration is a must read for educators and policy makers and a 101 manual for community organizer working with youth to dismantle once and for all the school to prison pipeline.

– Joanna Lowry, Social Worker, Neighborhood House

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