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Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline By Booth Gunter and Jamie Kizzire, Southern Poverty Law Center Posted on January 31, 2008, Printed on February 3, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/75533/ Darius was only nine when he was locked up. For two months, he languished in a juvenile facility -- alone, frightened. He missed his 10th birthday party. He missed Thanksgiving. He missed his stepfather's funeral. His offense: He had threatened a teacher with a plastic utensil. Unfortunately, Darius's early introduction to the juvenile justice system is not that uncommon. Across America, countless school children -- particularly impoverished children of color -- are being pushed out of schools and into juvenile lockups for minor misconduct that in an earlier era would have warranted counseling or a trip to the principal's office rather than a court appearance...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).