From Education to Incarceration

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Poetry Behind the Walls, and Transformative Justice Journal, along with being a co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory and Hip Hop Studies and Activism. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters or articles and over forty books. Priya Parmar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Secondary Education and Program Head of English Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her research interests are in developing curriculum using critical pedagogy and enhancing language and literacy awareness in educators who work with urban youth who have been disenfranchised by either schooling or environment. Parmar’s most recently published scholarly works include Critical Literacy in English Literature; Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop Artist KRS-ONE; and a chapter in Teaching Joe Kincheloe. David Stovall, Ph.D., is Professor of African-American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois of Chicago. His scholarship investigates critical race theory, concepts of social justice in education, the relationship between housing and education, and the relationship between schools and community stakeholders. In the attempt to bridge theory to action, Stovall has spent the last ten years working with community organizations and schools to develop curriculum that address issues of social justice.

• William Ayers: Foreword – Frank Hernandez: Preface – Acknowledgments – Anthony J. Nocella II/Priya Parmar/David Stovall: Introduction: Every Day Is Like Skydiving Without a Parachute: A Revolution for Abolishing the School to Prison Pipeline – Nancy A. Heitzeg: Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline – Annette Fuentes: The Schoolhouse as Jailhouse – David Gabbard: Rethinking the School to Prison Pipeline – Damien M. Sojoyner: Changing the Lens: Moving Away from the School to Prison Pipeline – Henry A. Giroux: Punishment Creep and the Crisis of Youth in the Age of Disposability – Jesselyn McCurdy: Targets for Arrest – Carol Mendoza Fisher: Race and Access to Green Space – Four Arrows: Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events – Maisha T. Winn/Stephanie S. Franklin: Emerging from Our Silos: Coalition Building for Black Girls – Shannon D. Snapp/Jennifer M. Hoeing/Amanda Fields/Stephen T. Russell: Messy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School to Prison Pipeline – Nekima Levy-Pounds: Warehousing, Imprisoning, and Labeling Youth "Minorities" – Dean L. Adams/Erica R. Meiners: Who Wants to Be Special? Pathologization and the Preparation of Bodies for Prison – Anthony J. Nocella II/Kim Socha: The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and the Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy – Mumia Abu-Jamal: Prisons of Ignorance – Deborah Appleman/Zeke Caligiuri/Jon Vang: At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated? – Anthony J. Nocella II: Transforming Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action – Don C. Sawyer III/Daniel White Hodge: Back on the Block: Community Reentry and Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Youth – Anne Burns Thomas: Youth in Transition and School Reentry: Process, Problems, and Preparation – Letitia Basford/Bridget Borer/Joe Lewis: A Reason to Be Angry: A Mother, Her Sons, and the School to Prison Pipeline – Erica R. Meiners: Ending the School to Prison Pipeline/Building Abolition Futures – Arash Daneshzadeh: A New Choice of Weapon: Activism Through Hip Hop and Restorative Justice – Emilio Lacques-Zapien/Leslie Mendoza: Youth of Color Fight Back: Transforming Our Communities – Anthony J. Nocella II: Tactics and Strategies to Organize for Abolishing the School to Prison Pipeline – Priya Parmar: Abolition Strategies for Teachers Fighting Academic Repression in the Corporate-Academic Industrial Complex – David Stovall: Seven Considerations for "School" Abolition – Bernardine Dohrn: Afterword – Appendix: Organizations and Resources – Contributors.