School-to-Prison Pipeline
The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to the policies and practices that push our nation’s schoolchildren, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This pipeline reflects the prioritization of incarceration over education.
This list is for educational purposes.
I will have a comment categorizing these reads to help you know where you should start!
created by wednesdaymourning
last updated March, 2026
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Foundational/Essential reads: • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton • The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning • Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Analytical • The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards by Nancy Heitzeg • The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform by Kim, Losen & Hewitt
Voices & Lived Experience: • Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Maisha T. Winn • My Brother Moochie by Issac Bailey • Progressive Dystopia by Savannah Shange
Gender & Intersectionality: • Arrested Justice by Beth Richie • Girl Time by Maisha T. Win • Disabling the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Laura Vernikoff
Zero Tolerance & Policy: • Zero Tolerance edited by Ayers, Ayers & Dohrn • Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
