Education Campaign Statement of Intentions:

We seek to raise significant awareness on Pomona College campus of the current Pomona College admissions policy that allows for discrimination against individuals who have been incarcerated within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). We aim to destabilize Pomona College’s representation of itself by drawing attention to who is not addressed in statements put forth to produce and promote Pomona’s image. We have chosen the format of posters placed strategically across campus because we want to denaturalize the physical space of campus to provoke people who are a part of this institution to consider, if they have not already, what experiences and perspectives may not be as represented. By pairing these statements with quotations, followed by our own questions, we hope that those who read the posters will be led to question the structural underpinnings of their own path to Pomona. We include this resource page about the school to prison pipeline to address some of the underlying structures that either privilege or police certain individuals. We also include resources around ‘Ban the Box’ campaigns that address the ways in which the demand from formerly incarcerated people to disclose their criminal record works to enable discrimination as an extrajudicial form of punishment.

Resource on Campus: Prison Abolition Club

PRISON ABOLITION CLUB DID NOT CREATE THESE POSTERS*

https://www.facebook.com/pg/prisonabolitionclaremont/about/?ref=page_internal

About: “We are a Claremont Colleges group aiming to create dialogue about the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) and engage with communities affected by the PIC.”

• Meetings are on Mondays at 7pm at The Hive on Pomona campus behind Millikan

Resources on the School to Prison Pipeline:

Websites/Organizations:

• Test, Punish, and Pushout: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth Into the School-To-Prison Pipeline  - “Advancement Project is an innovative civil rights law, policy, and communications “action tank” that advances universal opportunity and a just democracy for those left behind in America. We believe that sustainable progress can be made when multiple tools—law, policy analysis, strategic communications, technology, and research— are coordinated with grassroots movements. [...] The first section of the report examines the common origins and ideological roots of zero tolerance and high-stakes testing.”
• “School to Prison Pipeline Resources”- “Save the Kids (STK) is a fully-volunteer national grass-roots organization dedicated to alternatives to and the end of incarceration of all youth and the school to prison pipeline.”
• NAACP – School to Prison Pipeline -  “LDF has introduced and proposed a number of groundbreaking programs and advocacy efforts aimed at returning the emphasis to education instead of exclusion and incarceration.”
• Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, A Program of Advancement Project and “Resources” - Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse track is a program of Advancement Project. Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization.
• Southern Poverty Law Center - “We’re working to ensure that vulnerable children in the Deep South have equal opportunities to reach their full potential.”
• ACT 4 Juvenile Justice (ACT4JJ) -  “ACT4JJ advocates for the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) and for federal funding for juvenile justice programs and services.”
• International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) - “The International Juvenile Justice Observatory [...]  was founded in 2002 with the goal of encouraging a global juvenile justice without borders”
• United Nations Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ)” - “The United Nations Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ) is a coordination panel on technical advice and assistance in juvenile justice composed of 13 United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations actively involved in juvenile justice.”

Articles:

• Schoolhouse/Jailhouse by Nancy Heitzeg - “For more than ten years now, scholars, activists, educators, juvenile justice personnel and parents have been discussing the so-called School to Prison Pipeline. All this discussion has not produced meaningful policy changes that result in the lessening of the flow of youth of color from schools into legal systems.”
• “Education Not Incarceration: Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline”,
  Forum on Public Policy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming Winter 2010. - “The school to prison pipeline has emerged in the larger context of media hysteria over youth violence and the mass incarceration that characterize both the juvenile and adult legal systems. [...] It is most directly attributable to the expansion of zero tolerance policies. [...] A growing critique of these policies has lead to calls for reform and alternatives.”
• “Race, Class and Legal Risk in the United States: Youth of Color and Colluding Systems of Social Control” Forum on Public Policy, Oxford University Press, Winter 2009 - “This paper examines the role of colluding systems of social control in legal risk for youth of color, locating shifts in media, educational policy, and juvenile and adult criminal justice policies as central to persistent racial over-representation in legal systems of social control.”
• https://www.colorlines.com/articles/race-disability-and-school-prison-pipeline - “A nascent program in Oakland schools is trying to disentangle the threads that many believe drag black boys out of classrooms and into jails.”

Books:

• Lockdown High (book) - “Investigative reporter Annette Fuentes visits schools across America [...] She makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.” - Amazon
• Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools :A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens -  “Ironically, as this timely collection makes clear, recent research indicates that as schools adopt more zero tolerance policies they in fact become less safe [...] Zero Tolerance assembles prominent educators and intellectuals, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Michelle Fine, and Patricia Williams, along with teachers, students, and community activists” - Amazon
• Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline - “This new volume from the Harvard Educational Review features essays from scholars, educators, students, and community activists who are working to disrupt, reverse, and redirect the pipeline. Alongside these authors are contributions from the people most affected: youth and adults who have been incarcerated, or whose lives have been shaped by the school-to-prison pipeline.” - Amazon

Videos: The School-to-Prison Pipeline Explained

• AJ+ video
• Vox video - Trigger warning: violence, anti blackness
• New York Civil Liberties Union – Youtube
• Suspension Stories - “Members of the Philadelphia Student Union collaborated with film-makers Aidan Un, Lendl Tellington, and Sarah Milinski to create videos on issues that are relevant to the lives of young people in Philadelphia.”

Infographics:

“School to Prison Infographic”-ACLU

“Fact Sheet: How Bad is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?” (article and infographic)-PBS

“Minor Infractions” (infographic)- click the link to see full sized

“http://www.usprisonculture.com”

Ban the Box Resources:

• Ban the Box in Housing, Education, Voting: A Grassroots HIstory by Linda Evans - “Ban the Box is a movement to end the discrimination faced by millions of people in the U.S. — people who are returning to their communities from prison or jail and trying to put their lives back together. It is a campaign to win full restoration of our human and civil rights. [...] Formerly-incarcerated and convicted people know that the conviction history question on applications poses an almost insurmountable obstacle. Banning the Box – eliminating that question – is crucial for our communities and our families.”
• ‘Ban the Box’ Goes to College by Juleyka Lantigua-Williams - “When schools ask applicants about their criminal histories, a veneer of campus safety may come at the expense of educational opportunity.”
• We Must Ban the Box in Higher Education B Rev. Vivian Nixon - “Like most of the 95% of currently incarcerated individuals in this country who will one day be released, I hoped to move forward with my life, and to keep the often demoralizing and dehumanizing experience of incarceration far behind me. [...] Yet I found myself forced to constantly explain these mistakes as I faced questions about my criminal history on job, housing, and even college admission applications. These checkboxes asking me to self-disclose prior convictions weren’t just an annoyance - they threatened to derail my success and keep me from being the engaged citizen I longed to be.”
• Why some colleges and universities are calling to ‘Ban the Box’ on college applications by Haley Kim - “Education is a transformational thing,” Steinhardt said. “And education is a human right. It should not be a privilege, and we should not be creating collateral consequences where after people have paid their debt to society, they are still held back by so many other factors just like this.”
• Thinking “beyond the box”: The use of criminal records in college admissions by Judith Scott-Clayton - In this brief, I examine the policy landscape and review available evidence to assess the potential benefits and costs of thinking beyond the box in college admissions.