school-to-prison pipeline
Discipline to detention
The school-to-prison pipeline describes policies and practices that push students—disproportionately Black, Latino, and disabled youth—out of schools and into the criminal justice system.
Zero-tolerance discipline, police presence in schools, and suspensions funnel vulnerable students toward incarceration rather than education: Critics say harsh discipline policies feed the school-to-prison pipeline.
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- juvenile justiceLegal system for minors
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- zero tolerance policiesRules permitting no infractions
juvenile · detention · zero-tolerance · criminalization · mandatory minimums · dropout · pushed out · discipline · handcuffs · truancy · inequality · racism · disproportionate · punishment · marginalized · at-risk youth · profiling · arrest
- juvenile delinquencyjuvenile crime, juvenile justice, juvenile court, youth crime, youth offenders
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, racial profiling, racial bias, discrimination
- race studiescritical race theory, systemic racism, institutional racism, white privilege, intersectionality
school-to-prison pipelinerestorative justice
Conflict resolution through mutual healing
rehabilitation · restorative practices · decarceration · reintegration · redemption
school-to-prison pipelineinclusive education
Teaching all abilities together
alternative education · early intervention · dropout prevention
school, schools, schooled, schooling, scholar, scholarly, scholarship, prison, prisons