Education and the Carceral State, created by the Community Organizations Team (Gabrielle French, Allie Goodman, Chloe Carlson, Matt Lassiter), is the first research report in the “Documenting and Confronting the Carceral State” series. These reports draw from the Carceral State Project’s 2018-2019 Symposium Series by combining video excerpts of the panelists with contextual material.
Part 3, Education and the Carceral State, documents the school-to-prison pipeline and the disproportionate criminalization of nonwhite and poor youth, among other topics. Based on 14 video clips from the symposium series, this report also addresses educational access in correctional institutions, the barriers to equal educational opportunity for those with criminal records (including at U-M), and the nationwide shift in funding from schools to prisons and other punitive institutions.
