Special Education in Prison

The School-to-Prison Pipeline

“The collection of education and public safety policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren out of the classroom and into the streets, the juvenile justice system, or the criminal justice system.”

Mass Incarceration

• The U.S. Has the world's largest prison population
• The U.S. has 5% of world population and 25% of world prison population
• The U.S. prison population rose 700% between 1970 and 2005

OVER REPRESENTATION

Constitutional Claims

Equal Protection and
Due Process

Statutory Rights

Section 504 and the ADA
IDEA

Department for Education
Office for Civil Rights

Lawyers and Judges

Mediation

Community Campaigns