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Education Behind Bars: A History Of Prisoner Education Within The Florida Department Of Corrections And Suggestions For The Future, Peter Felix Armstrong
Education Behind Bars: A History Of Prisoner Education Within The Florida Department Of Corrections And Suggestions For The Future, Peter Felix Armstrong
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
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The Proactive Model: How To Better Protect The Right To Special Education For Incarcerated Youth, John Bignotti
The Proactive Model: How To Better Protect The Right To Special Education For Incarcerated Youth, John Bignotti
Indiana Law Journal
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) guarantees access to a specialized, appropriate public education for youth with disabilities in the United States. While progress has been made and this right to education extends to incarcerated youth as well as those outside the juvenile justice system, there is nonetheless a fundamental limitation on how this federal requirement is imposed in the carceral context: it is enforced through primarily reactive mechanisms. Lawsuits, state compliance regimes, and consent decrees can hold states and juvenile facilities accountable after systemic failures to comply with the IDEA; however, the inherent inconsistency and slow pace of …