A Women's Circle From Classmates to Inmates: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Join A Women's Circle as we untangle the intersection between School-to-Prison Pipeline with special guest Professor Christopher Allen Mallett. Dr. Mallett is licensed in Ohio as a social worker and attorney, and has a long history of working with, advocating for, and representing vulnerable children, adolescents, and their families. The show will focus on the intersection between the public education and penal systems and how both of these institutions, in part, have put forth an effort to control and discipline school-age populations with similar institutional model. As equally important, the school to prison pipeline is amalgamation of a number of different trends-from the over representation of students of color in special education to the rise of zero tolerance school discipline problems; from an increased fear related to school safety to put perverse incentives from test-based accountability systems to push out low-performing students.  We will discuss interventions, and posits recommendations for further actions and policies changes at the state level, local level, school, community and in the home.  The aim of our show is to offer high-impact structural interventions.