Locked Away: The Toll of Mass Incarceration on Students
January 28, 2019
By: Melinda D. Anderson
Source: Edutopia
By the time she reached high school, Bianca Lopez had been labeled a “bad student” for talking loudly and talking back in class.
Now an adult reflecting on her years of schooling in Los Angeles, Lopez, 21, said her misbehavior masked the pain and grief she felt after her older brother was sent to prison just shy of her 12th birthday. Lopez remembers carrying the distress of her sibling’s absence to school daily until she attended a lunchtime group for youth impacted by incarceration during her junior year.