Schools remain the major conduits to prisons without structural change

Evidence

Schools can therefore be seen as the most powerful alternative to jails and prisons. Unless the current structures of violence are eliminated from schools in impoverished communities of color—including the presence of armed security guards and police—and unless schools become places that encourage the joy of learning, these schools will remain the major conduits to prisons. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to school-to-prison-pipeline literature and policing in schools. — connects to: Prisons preserve practices that society has largely abandoned as obsolete; Mass incarceration did not lower crime but bred more prisons; Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned (+2 more)

Related

• Prisons function as criminal training centers and a just society would not need them (similarity 0.82)
• The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge. (similarity 0.82)
• Prison is treated as an inevitable fact of life even in communities it oppresses (similarity 0.80)
• Prison expansion correlates with falling crime, exposing profit and racism as drivers (similarity 0.80)
• Prisons stockpile obsolete ideas like racism and misogyny that society has rejected (similarity 0.80)
• Punishment follows politics, corporate profit, and media, not crime itself (similarity 0.79)
• Prison expansion undermines democracy and normalizes incarceration for people of color (similarity 0.79)
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (similarity 0.79)
• Prison abolition has a long history but remains culturally unthinkable (similarity 0.78)
• Prisons demonstrably fail to reduce the crime rate (similarity 0.78)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Prisons preserve practices that society has largely abandoned as obsolete #expands (0.50)
• Mass incarceration did not lower crime but bred more prisons #corroborates (0.40)
• Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned #expands (0.30)