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College

Seattle University

Major

Psychology

Faculty Mentor

Hannah Tracy

Faculty Editor

Tara Roth

Student Editor

Rhainne Coyle

Abstract

The school-to-prison pipeline is a disturbing reality that is one of the most grotesque and ironic manifestations of systemic failure. This phrase, school-to-prison pipeline, is used to describe the national trend where children almost exclusively from marginalized communities are funneled out of public school and into the juvenile and criminal justice system. The United States public education system pushes its most vulnerable citizens, children, from an institution where they are sent to safely learn and grow, into one that is like hell on Earth, where they will be stripped of their humanity and work as slave labor in privately owned prisons funded by corporations that profit from human suffering. This satirical story exposes that dark absurdity of the institutional design of the school-to-prison pipeline in a way that turns its true agenda on its head, shouting what is meant to be hushed. It reflects the bleak reality of the educational system and calls attention to economic privilege, racial injustice, and capitalistic indoctrination.

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