The Root of the Problem: Mississippi and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Author

Matthew Brennan Hendley, University of MississippiFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-1-2021

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Journalism

First Advisor

Iveta Imre

Second Advisor

Debora Wenger

Third Advisor

Marquita Smith

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

The Root of the Problem: Mississippi and the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a solutions journalism piece about the “schoolhouse to jailhouse” theory, which represents a phenomenon in which grade school students, the majority of which are minority youth, are funneled into the criminal justice system via schools through policies and procedures that criminalize student misbehavior. The piece is an in-depth analysis of the arrival, history, and current state of the school-to-prison pipeline in Mississippi, featuring one specific effort to dismantle the phenomenon in the Sunflower County Consolidated School District in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to this analysis, the piece explores not only the players involved in the advancement of the school-to-prison pipeline, but the root causes well.

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Multimedia Website URL: https://msschooltoprison.wordpress.com/

Recommended Citation

Hendley, Matthew Brennan, "The Root of the Problem: Mississippi and the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (2021). Honors Theses. 1757.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1757

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