Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, ‘Maybe 30.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline
Author: JULIANNE HING
Source: Colorlines
Publication Date: 27-Nov-12
Link: The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline
Source: Colorlines
Publication Date: 27-Nov-12
Link: The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline
Stephan: The previous report was about Arizona. This one is about Mississippi, and I run them together to give a sense of the scale of the New American Slavery Trend.
Unless you read SR regularly you may know nothing about this. It is rarely touched upon in the corporate media. The truth is though there are now more Black prison slaves in America than there were plantation slaves at the beginning of the Civil War -- and that is just the African Americans. When you add in Hispanics, poor whites, and everyone else you understand why the American Gulag is the largest prison system in the world. We have five percent of the world's population and 25 per cent of the world's humans in prison. Does that make you proud?