There's been a long focus on this kind of scared, straight approach to black kids who were born under poverty. This book is very much parallels books like slavery by another name by David Blackman. Many charter schools are built around this premise. In fact, there was a 2013 walkout of a charter school because they basically said, so their school's mimic prison. Our job is to basically manage the surplus population.
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".