Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School

“This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open—ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison.” In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons and prison schooling is so important. An unprecedented institutional ethnography of race and gender power in one state’s juvenile prison school system, Compulsory will have major implications f...