Lawmaker Pushes Reforms Aimed at Disabling Michigan's School to Prison Pipeline

Jun 15, 2017 No Comments

State rep. Adam Zemke held a town hall forum focusing on ways to reduce the number of youth entering the “school-to-prison pipeline” due to zero-tolerance policies in schools. A Michigan lawmaker is set on hobbling the school-to-prison pipeline in his state. The forum was titled “How to Create a School-to-Success Continuum: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

Justice System Throws Poor Kids Into Debtors' Prison

Jan 5, 2017 No Comments

Inability to pay fines and fees related to the criminal justice system results in further punishment for youth, including extended sentences and probation. It is becoming increasingly obvious that zero-tolerance policies contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline, often unfairly punishing youth for offenses that should not be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Involvement in

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New Guidelines Target Ending “Zero-tolerance” Policies, Aim To Stem School-to-Prison Pipeline

Nov 24, 2016 No Comments

The Obama administration has taken more steps to improve an atmosphere of fairness and equity and to support a climate of achievement for public school students. New materials to be used as tools by educators were released in September as part of a continuing effort to urge schools to abandon controversial, harsh “zero-tolerance” punishment policies

Shifting to restorative justice in Los Angeles schools

Mar 17, 2016 No Comments

As the school-to-prison pipeline system continues to be under scrutiny, schools in the Los Angeles area are working to reduce this, armed with mounting evidence that harsh punishment for small offenses at an early age does not reduce crime rates, but makes it more likely that offenders to go to prison than to college. Realizing

“Each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built.”

Nov 5, 2015 No Comments

Those are the words of young Brooklynite, Vidal Chastanet, describing on Humans of New York (HONY) how his teacher, Nadia Lopez, explains the importance of education for individual and social well-being. While we generally focus on prison education initiatives on this blog, we would be remiss not to mention the continuation of a story that

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Book Review: The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

Apr 15, 2015 No Comments

The Globalization of Supermax PrisonsEdited by Jeffrey Ian Ross(Rutgers University Press, 2013)240 pages, $28.95 paperback Book review by Gary Hunter “Zero tolerance” is a phrase that has found its way into many facets of our society. But nowhere is it more prevalent than in the vocabulary used by lawmakers when waging our nation’s relentless, ongoing

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Lawmaker Pushes Reforms Aimed at Disabling Michigan's School to Prison Pipeline

Justice System Throws Poor Kids Into Debtors' Prison

New Guidelines Target Ending “Zero-tolerance” Policies, Aim To Stem School-to-Prison Pipeline

Shifting to restorative justice in Los Angeles schools

“Each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built.”

Book Review: The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

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