Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The school-to-prison pipeline introduces students to the criminal legal system, affecting their mental health, academic potential, and livelihoods.
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The school-to-prison pipeline introduces students to the criminal legal system, affecting their mental health, academic potential, and livelihoods.
read moreOn August 8, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on suspicion of mishandling classified documents (MSN). When activists demanded defunding of the police, conservatives trumpeted their unconditional support for law enforcement. For the same people to now shout “defund the FBI” raises the question of whether “their love of law enforcement only…
read moreIn an unjust criminal legal system, the exclusion of marginalized people on juries enables an inequitable system to prosper.
read moreDespite the end of slavery, forced labor practices continue in prisons and jails across the country, exploiting incarcerated people
read moreExamining the harms of criminalizing sex work and why decriminalization, not legalization, is the solution.
read moreWith Jim Crow-era origins, curfew laws fail to protect public safety; instead, they ensure marginalized young people are criminalized.
read moreThe cash bail system works within a flawed structure that forces people, mainly Black and Brown, to pay for their freedom.
read moreDue to policies and the staff culture in prisons, racial segregation and oppression are used to subjugate minority groups.
read moreDespite its intentions, deinstitutionalization resulted in people with mental illness being moved from one carceral institution to another.
read moreEnding mass incarceration in prisons must be accompanied by creating “mass integration” for those released.
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