Crime Quote by Jamaal Bowman

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.

— Jamaal Bowman

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly to involvement…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building.…

— Michelle Alexander

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

“In early 2014, the Department of Justice and Education issued guidelines pressuring public school districts to adopt racial quotas when disciplining children. The basis…

— David E. Bernstein

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which…

— Henry Giroux