The prison school : educational inequality and school discipline in the age of mass incarceration / Lizbet Simmons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Lizbet, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile corrections--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Juvenile corrections.

African American young men--Education--Louisiana--New Orleans.

African American young men.

African American young men--Louisiana--New Orleans--Discipline.

School discipline--Louisiana--New Orleans.

School discipline.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, dropout rates have accelerated, and prison populations have exploded. Nowhere, perhaps, has the War on Crime been more influential in broadening racialized academic and socioeconomic disparity than in New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 2002 the criminal sheriff opened his own public school at the Orleans Parish Prison. "The Prison School," as locals called it, enrolled low-income African American boys who had been removed from regular public schools because of nonviolent disciplinary offenses, such as tardiness and insubordination. By examining this school in the local and national context, Lizbet Simmons shows how young black males are in the liminal state of losing educational affiliation while being caught in the net of correctional control. In The Prison School, she asks how schools and prisons became so intertwined. What does this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society? And how do we unravel the ties that bind the racialized realities of school failure and mass incarceration?

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era

2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry"

3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans

4. The Prison School

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520293144

0520293142

OCLC:

951742696