Abstract
The school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) is the most severe example of Educational Trauma and is also an example of: Spectral, In-Situ, Ex-Situ, and Social-Ecological Educational Traumas. It is a systematic method by which schools facilitate the movement of minority youth (i.e., Black, Latinx, and/or LGBTQ+ students) into the prison-industrial complex. The STPP represents the height of “at-risk” profiling gone awry. It is a set of systematic processes and programs that channel oppressed students into a parallel universe that Rios (2011) calls the Youth Correctional Complex. Along with the prison-industrial complex, it ensures minority youth wind up in “social death”. The denial of this as a method of genocide against marginalized people places the United States in the 10th of 10 stages of genocide (see Epilogue).
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For additional details on how criminalizing, stigmatizing and humiliating forms of punishment aimed at “correcting” or “managing” marginalized youth has failed, please see Rios (2011).
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin, CEO Gaia Project Consulting; Founder Gaia Project for Women’s Leadership relayed the following (Twitter, June 13, 2019) from a friend of hers who completed two volunteer tours as a legal advocate at Border Patrol facilities. CBP has outposts at the border; people arrive on foot seeking asylum and are placed in “The Dog Pound”—cages on dirt. There are dozens of teen mothers, yet no baby food. One CBP agent took a baby away from her teen mother, stripped the baby of clothing, and returned the baby to the teen mother in “The Dog Pound” to sleep in the dirt, naked. After being placed in “The Dog Pound,” asylum seekers are transferred to “The Freezer” kept at 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Some refugees (critically ill, disabled, sick children, teen mothers with babies) are placed in “The Freezer” while still wet from their journey, and kept there for weeks at a time. The next place where asylum seekers are supposed to go to are ICE Facilities, which include beds, showers, bathrooms, food, however they are closed and empty. The federal government is shutting down residential facilities for asylum seekers in order to transfer them to military installations such as Fort Sill which was a Japanese Internment Camp. Make no mistake these are concentration camps. When they come under the supervision of the military and the Department of Defense (DoD), the media cannot gain access, the flight space is protected so drones can’t fly overhead and capture images, and volunteer assistance will also be denied. In these instances, human rights monitors will not be allowed to check in on asylum seekers either.
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Gray, LA. (2019). The School-to-Prison Pipeline. In: Educational Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28083-3_18
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