How The School to Prison Pipeline Ruins Lives Before They Start • BRAVE NEW FILMS (BNF): JUSTICE #2

Описание: When a kid gets in trouble at school, we used to send them to the principal's office. Now, we're suspending, expelling or even arresting kids for the smallest misbehaviors. This trend is called the School-To-Prison pipeline. WATCH MORE:    • Why are so many women in prison? • BRAVE N...  

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There are school to prison pipelines all across the country. Nationwide, as many as 95 percent of out-of-school suspensions are for nonviolent misbehaviors like these.

In one town, the cops were called to break up a fight -a water balloon fight. When you crack down harshly on kids for minor infractions, you're telling them one thing: You Are A Problem.

Suspending or expelling a kid increases his or her chance to drop out of high school, and we know high school dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates to be arrested in their lifetime.

Sending a kid to juvenile detention center also makes crime more likely in their future. Kids who are incarcerated are 67 percent more likely to be back in jail by the age of 25 than similar kids who didn't go to prison.

This zero tolerance policy doesn't apply to everyone equally. In Wake County North Carolina, which has one of the largest School-To-Prison Pipelines, 40 percent of black kids caught with cell phones were suspended -while only 17 percent of white kids were suspended for the same thing.

Though Blacks and Latinos only make up 29% of the public school students, they make up 70% of students involved in in-school arrests, or who are referred to law enforcement.

Schools even crack down on special needs students -arresting them for the very behaviors that stem from their special needs. 32 percent of youth in juvenile detention are special needs students.

That's the School to Prison Pipeline! Another way that the United States incarcerates more people than any other country on earth.



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