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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/education/shocking-details-mississippi-school-prison-pipelineCedrico Green cant exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, Maybe 30. He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Thereafter, any of Greens school-based infractions, from being a few minutes late for class to breaking the school dress code by wearing the wrong color socks, counted as violations of his probation and led to his immediate suspension and incarceration in the local juvenile detention center.
But Green wasnt alone. A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss., where Green lives and is set to graduate from high school this coming year, argues that the citys juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system, and violates young peoples due process rights along the way.
In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principals office. They call the police, who show up to arrest children who are as young as 10 years old. Arrests, the Department of Justice says, happen automatically, regardless of whether the police officer knows exactly what kind of offense the child has committed or whether that offense is even worthy of an arrest. The police departments policy is to arrest all children referred to the agency.
Once those children are in the juvenile justice system, they are denied basic constitutional rights. They are handcuffed and incarcerated for days without any hearing and subsequently warehoused without understanding their alleged probation violations.
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Ridiculous...What the hell is next ? Take them behind the school an shoot 'um ?
BlueJazz
Nov 2012
#3
The communities in Mississippi which allow their schools to use law enforcement as displinarians
Skidmore
Nov 2012
#5
Or: "Why schools and prisons should NOT be for-profit entities" n/t
ProfessionalLeftist
Nov 2012
#20
We tried to warn you that the for-profit prisons would look for new "customers"...
Romulox
Nov 2012
#25
This is an old story. Juvie in MS is like the boogieman. We kids were threatened with it
nolabear
Nov 2012
#31