On this episode, Dr. Subini Annamma discusses the school-prison nexus, the way youth in schools are targeted, labeled, and criminalized, how this systemic process perpetuates ableism, sexism and racism, and the effects of this targeting. Annamma was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research critically examines the ways students are criminalized and resist that criminalization through the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact youth education trajectories in urban schools and youth prisons.
