Prison School
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african american
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black
black boys
black males
black men
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correctional control
criminal justice
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disciplinary offenses
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expulsion
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mass incarceration
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orleans parish prison
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penology
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prison school
probation
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public school
punishment
race
racism
recidivism
school administration
school dropout
school to prison pipeline
social issues
social science
socioeconomic disparity
softlaunch
suspension
urban
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520281455
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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, drop out 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?
Lizbet Simmons is a sociologist living in Los Angeles.
