Education and Incarceration

The USA is in possession of the largest prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently behind bars - predominantly and disproportionately made up of communities of colour and poverty. Education and Incarceration highlights the significance of centering agency and autonomy, and documents scholars who work to be accountable to justice movements and communities, not simply to academic disciplines or to research. As emerging scholars committed to challenging the prison industrial complex, these authors build multi-layered analytic and material tools for resistance within and beyond the walls of schools, jails and prisons. This book provides snapshots of practices in motion: activist scholars working to engage, to be accountable to families, communities and larger justice movements, and to build abolition democracies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Race Ethnicity and Education.