1st Edition

Education and Incarceration

Edited By Erica R. Meiners, Maisha T. Winn Copyright 2012
152 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

The United States of America is in possession of the largest prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently behind bars. This number is predominantly and disproportionately made up of communities of colour and poverty. Between 1987 and 2007, the U.S. prison population tripled; the direct result of various ‘tough on crime’ public policies. Organizers and scholars use the term... Read more

Chapter 1. Resisting the school to prison pipeline: the practice to build abolition democracies  Erica R. Meiners and Maisha T. Winn

Chapter 2. Home/work: engaging the methodological dilemmas and possibilities of intimate inquiry  Crystal T. Laura

Chapter 3. Our lyrics will not be on lockdown: an arts collective’s response to an incarceration nation  Keisha L. Green

Chapter 4. ‘Our side of the story’: moving incarcerated youth voices from margins to center  Maisha T. Winn

Chapter 5. Contesting institutional discourse to create new possibilities for understanding lived experience: life-stories of young women in detention, rehabilitation, and education  Suniti Sharma

Chapter 6. Enclosures abound: Black cultural autonomy, prison regime and public education  Damien Schnyder

Chapter 7. Criminality of Black youth in inner-city schools: ‘moral panic’, moral imagination, and moral formation  Sarah Farmer

Chapter 8. It’s not just a method! The epistemic and political work of young people’s lifeworlds at the school–prison nexus  Patricia Krueger-Henney

Biography

Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, USA. She is the author of Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies (2007).

Maisha T. Winn is Associate Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and School-to-Prison Pipeline (2011).