The creation of new institutions that lay claim to the space now occupied by the prison can eventually start to crowd out the prison, so that it would inhabit increasingly smaller areas of our social and psychic landscape. Schools can therefore be seen as the most powerful alternative to jails and prisons, unless the current structures of violence are eliminated from schools in impoverished communities of color, including the presence of armed security guards, and police. And unless schools become places that encouraged the joy of learning these schools will remain the major conduit to prisons. The alternative would be to transform schools into vehicles for decarceration.