An advocate for alternatives to incarceration for youths and adults, Weissman elevates the stories of four young people about their experiences in the US school-to-prison pipeline, and connects their individual experiences to a set of structural conditions and policy choices that dismiss their humanity and promise. Among the topics are entwining schools into the carceral state, from liberation learning to social control, the lives of marginalized kids, the process of being suspended, what kids think makes a difference, and theory and literature. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)