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MA: Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Boston Globe DANIEL G. MEYER By Daniel G. Meyer | May 28, 2008 A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was handcuffed and arrested at Brockton High School last June for wearing a T-shirt. The T-shirt, which she was asked by school officials to remove, bore the image of her ex-boyfriend, 14-year-old Marvin Constant, who had recently been killed in a Boston area shooting. The girl refused to remove the memorial shirt and was arrested for "causing a disturbance." In Texas, 14-year-old high school freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Her crime was pushing a hall monitor out of the way when she was stopped from entering a school building. The official charge was "assault on a public servant." While extreme, these cases are not unusual...continue to full post

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