The special education to prison pipeline is a documented facet of the school to prison pipeline, in which Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other youth of color disproportionately experience exclusionary school discipline, increasing their likelihood of incarceration. The special ed to prison pipeline is a sub-trend in which BIPOC youth who are identified as having disabilities experience even higher rates of exclusionary discipline, in part because the disability policies and programs do not serve all students equitably. At the same time, scholars and governmental agencies such as the CDC recognize that people with disabilities across gender identities experience higher than average rates of sexual and other gender-based violence. There is a dearth of research documenting the structural issues contributing to that trend outside of direct care programs. This dissertation, consisting of three papers, examines relationships between these two trends. Each paper addresses the relationship from a different disciplinary perspective. In one paper, I explore the theories of disability that scholars and policymakers apply, and discuss how these theories help to frame the issues of racism, ableism, and gender violence in the special ed to prison pipeline. In one paper, I discuss legal theory and case law related to intersections of racism and ableism, and intersections of ableism and gender violence, and identify ways in which current policies fail to facilitate truly intersectional legal approaches to these problems. And in the final paper, I present data from thirteen interviews with individuals or family members of individuals who have been involved with special education, exclusionary discipline, and in some cases, the carceral system, and identify ways in which education policies have failed to protect them. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]