The United States has been waging a highly publicized war on drugs for a long time. Familiar scenes seem to have been with us for a lifetime: government agents posing with bricks of cocaine piled high, helicopters defoliating coca fields abroad, drug czars promising that our redoubled efforts are finally turning the tide.

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HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN UNDERCLASS,
OR HOW THE WAR ON DRUGS BECAME
A WAR ON EDUCATION
By Eric Blumenson* and Eva S. Nilsen**
I. A NEW PUNISHMENT: DENYING OFFENDERS AN EDUCATION
A. Public School Education
B. College and Higher Education
C. Prison Education
II. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL COSTS OF EDUCATIONAL PRIVATION
PUNISHMENTS
III. RECLAIMING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OFFENDERS
A. Political Prospects
B. Court Challenges
1. Substantive Due Process and Equal Protection
2. Retroactive Application
3. Rights Under the Federal Disability Acts
4. Unconstitutional Punishment
The United States has been waging a highly publicized war on drugs for
a long time. Familiar scenes seem to have been with us for a lifetime:
government agents posing with bricks of cocaine piled high, helicopters
defoliating