The United States is not just the number one jailer in the world. It also incarcerates juveniles at a rate that eclipses every other country. Evidence has long been building that schools use the correctional system as a misplaced mechanism for discipline, with children being sent to detention facilities for offenses as minor as wearing the wrong color socks to school. A juvenile county chief judge testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that these are not isolated incidents, but rather systemic trends that bombard prosecutors and courts with a glut of cases in which kids pose no danger but merely ‘make adults mad
Monday, February 4th, 2013
Juvenile Judge: My Court Was Inundated With Non-Dangerous Kids Arrested Because They ‘Make Adults Mad’
Author: NICOLE FLATOW
Source: Think Progress - Justice
Publication Date: Dec 13, 2012 at 11:20 am
Link: Juvenile Judge: My Court Was Inundated With Non-Dangerous Kids Arrested Because They ‘Make Adults Mad’
Source: Think Progress - Justice
Publication Date: Dec 13, 2012 at 11:20 am
Link: Juvenile Judge: My Court Was Inundated With Non-Dangerous Kids Arrested Because They ‘Make Adults Mad’
Stephan: Here is the latest in the school-to-prison pipeline, part of the New American Slavery trend. This time the outrage comes from