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From Today’s History Story: The Five Terrible Ways Schools Are Preparing Our Children For Prisons
Hundreds of thousands of Black students are trapped in schools where officers and authority figures unfairly police their behavior. These biased practices and policies rob many students of their futures and feed them into the school-to-prison pipeline.
You may be familiar with this term, but it goes deeper than you might know. In this episode, we talk with Judith Browne Dianis, the “Godmother” of this phenomenon, to comprehensively understand the school-to-prison pipeline. She is a movement lawyer, professor, and executive director of Advancement Project, a civil rights organization committed to actualizing “America’s promise of a caring, inclusive, and just democracy.”
As a pioneer in deconstructing this insidious structural institution, Judith has published transformative reports like Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track. She’s been doing this work for 20-plus years and isn't stopping anytime soon.
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School To Prison Pipeline
Crime has gone down in the U.S. yet prison population exploded. We started to criminalize more activities. Beholden to it for profits and social control
Odio Eget Eorta It's called the school to prison pipeline and it's a national trend where children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Special thanks to Five Mualimm-ak, director of the Incarcerated Nation Campaign for co-producing this segment with us.
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