School Officials Promote Fast Track to Incarceration

From Florida to California to Connecticut, students and parents across the country are contending with an education system that is increasingly implementing harsher methods of disciplining students, and placing thousands of armed officers on school campuses. Youth and civil-rights advocates call the growing presence of law enforcement in schools, along with increasingly punitive punishment for misbehavior, the "school-to-prison pipeline." Full Story »

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by Benjamin Melançon - Oct. 1, 2008

"Fifteen-year-old Latia Smith said she was a bystander during a fight at school between two girls when a police officer threatened her with arrest, grabbed her and dislocated her shoulder." With other examples followed up by interviews, statistics, history, official comment, advocacy group viewpoints-- Catherine Komp and The NewStandard are doing full-power 6-cylinder journalism with this article, and most others at The NewStandard.

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