42 min
Addressing the “School-to-Prison Pipeline” Contraindicated
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- Education
The term “school-to-prison pipeline” describes a phenomenon wherein children who should be getting an education instead end up trapped in the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex due racial discrimination and the criminalization of learning differences, trauma, and behavioral issues. Imagine if we treated the challenges some children have in the classroom as health problems and health injustice challenges requiring health interventions instead of disciplinary measures. In this episode, we speak with two researchers who are a part of a new initiative to develop just such an approach.
Further Reading:
ACLU, School-to-Prison Pipeline Mary Ellen Flannery, The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Time to Shut it Down, National Education Association (January 5th, 2015). Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, School-to-Prison-PipelineMichelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press, 2010.
The term “school-to-prison pipeline” describes a phenomenon wherein children who should be getting an education instead end up trapped in the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex due racial discrimination and the criminalization of learning differences, trauma, and behavioral issues. Imagine if we treated the challenges some children have in the classroom as health problems and health injustice challenges requiring health interventions instead of disciplinary measures. In this episode, we speak with two researchers who are a part of a new initiative to develop just such an approach.
Further Reading:
ACLU, School-to-Prison Pipeline Mary Ellen Flannery, The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Time to Shut it Down, National Education Association (January 5th, 2015). Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, School-to-Prison-PipelineMichelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press, 2010.
42 min