{"title":"FACTSHEET – Prison-Schools","authors":"Brian Cabral, S. Annamma, Jamelia Morgan","doi":"10.1177/01614681231181819","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What: Prison-schools are education programs within youth prisons that are mandated by law. Everyone deserves a robust education, including incarcerated youth. Yet, prison-schools are generally ineffective for all populations, and they are particularly harmful for disabled Youth of Color. Who: Despite population reductions for incarcerated youth overall, disabled Girls of Color are still more likely to be confined in youth prisons. Concurrently, youth confinement is expensive. The average state cost for secure confinement of one youth is more than $200,000 per year. At least 40 states spend more than $100,000 per year to incarcerate one student in a youth facility (Justice Policy Institute, 2022). We focus on disabled Girls of Color because:","PeriodicalId":48274,"journal":{"name":"Teachers College Record","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teachers College Record","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681231181819","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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What: Prison-schools are education programs within youth prisons that are mandated by law. Everyone deserves a robust education, including incarcerated youth. Yet, prison-schools are generally ineffective for all populations, and they are particularly harmful for disabled Youth of Color. Who: Despite population reductions for incarcerated youth overall, disabled Girls of Color are still more likely to be confined in youth prisons. Concurrently, youth confinement is expensive. The average state cost for secure confinement of one youth is more than $200,000 per year. At least 40 states spend more than $100,000 per year to incarcerate one student in a youth facility (Justice Policy Institute, 2022). We focus on disabled Girls of Color because:
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Teachers College Record (TCR) publishes the very best scholarship in all areas of the field of education. Major articles include research, analysis, and commentary covering the full range of contemporary issues in education, education policy, and the history of education. The book section contains essay reviews of new books in a specific area as well as reviews of individual books. TCR takes a deliberately expansive view of education to keep readers informed of the study of education worldwide, both inside and outside of the classroom and across the lifespan.