Youth Incarceration & Education Policy
Angela James
Chapter fourteen describes how policymakers and educators can begin to move away from punitive, carceral approaches and instead work with justice-involved youth to remediate their past educational deficits and ensure that the educational system does not further harm these students.
“Nationally, over $25 million dollars per day is spent incarcerating youth. Those charged with creating educational policy must seize this opportunity of public reckoning with juvenile-justice systems to develop a new vision of educational practice for students held in carceral settings, as well for the larger number of students whose demographics and social characteristics puts them “at-risk.”