Posts Tagged ‘school to prison’
Connecticut aims to break school-to-prison pipeline
By Christopher Zoukis Connecticut is moving to implement a series of juvenile justice and education reforms aimed at cutting the school-to-prison pipeline after a series of complaints were lodged about problems plaguing the state’s system. Governor Dannel Malloy has already moved to close the Connecticut Juvenile Training Program by 2018 after multiple reports of violence,…
Read MoreAddressing the School to Prison Pipeline: Why Education is the Liberation of Black Youth
By Jonathan Stith There is a war going on outside — that no Black youth is safe from. Most recently, we’ve seen this war played out through the extrajudicial killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice and other victims of state-sanctioned violence. But we also know it through the devastation of mass incarceration under…
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