This page looks at education - both inside and outside of the prison system.
On the School-to-Prison Pipeline:
The school-to-prison pipeline is defined as the use of policies and practices that push students from schools into the criminal juvenile justice system. This process mostly affects at-risk-students, who are predominantly African American, Latino, and Native American. This process is also used in poorer areas, where students are already struggling to attend and succeed at school, and schools do not have adequate resources for proper teaching or counseling.
- From African Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice
(linked & cited below)
On education in prison and the Bard Prison Initiative:
When you have an absence of any programs in prison that facilitate any kind of growth, individuals are becoming perhaps disillusioned because they're not being prepared for anything other than what they've already been doing, which is crime. (Saivey- Jones, BPI student)
For a generation college opportunity was a central part of criminal justice in the United States. It was the least expensive and best way to reduce violence, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety. And yet it became a lightning rod politically. There had been college opportunity in virtually every state and prison in the United States and it was eliminated overnight with the Clinton crime bill. (Max Kenner, founder and director BPI)
- From College Behind Bars (linked and cited below)
Source citation: Starks, Glenn L. "School-to-Prison Pipeline." African Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice, vol. 2, Greenwood, 2015, pp. 468-481. Gale eBooks, https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.greenriver.edu/apps/doc/CX6495200055/GVRL?u=aubu98092&sid=GVRL&xid=fd71ff8b. Accessed 18 Aug. 2020.
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Source citation for quotes at top of page: Novack, Lynn and Ken Burns. College Behind Bars. PBS. 2019. https://www.pbs.org/show/college-behind-bars/