The school to prison pipeline is something people hear a lot about. It's very repeat that they're basically in a form of incarceration from the time they enter the public education system. Their expectations are kept at the bottom of the floor. This kind of carceral system is seen as the result of moral failings on the part of poor people rather than something that is the natural or logical outgrowth of poverty.
In this News Brief, we talk with Josie Duffy Rice about her new podcast, "Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children,” incarceration as racial disciplining mechanism, and what has––and hasn't––changed in our so-called "juvenile justice system".