Summary Of The School To Prison Pipeline

“Minority students are being pushed out the classroom and into jail cells at alarming rates and for very minor wrongdoings”(Catherine Kate). This is very important because students are missing on their education for getting suspended or put in juvenile. We all want children to be led into successful life not to be led into a pathway to prison. The U.S prison system is fed through the school to prison pipeline. Starting in schools, some children are targeted through disciplinary action, are suspended at high rates, and are fed into the system of juvenile justice that lead to incarceration. This is an unjust system and it needs to be changed. The U.S prison system is fed through the school to prison pipeline. Starting in schools, some children are targeted through disciplinary action. One of the texts that illustrates this is the article “The School to Prison Pipeline, Time to Shut it Down” by Mary Flannery. “My eyes were opened by a young man I met who had spent 21 days in a juvenile detention center, basically for talking back”(Flanner, The School to Prison Pipeline, 42). Some schools thought suspending

One of the texts that illustrates this is “The School to Prison Pipeline, Explained” by Libby Nelson and Dara Lind. “Especially for older students, trouble at school can lead to their first contact with the criminal justice system. And in many cases, schools themselves are the ones pushing students into the juvenile justice system — often by having students arrested at school by School Resource Officers like the one in Spring Valley”(www.justicepolicy.org). This is important because all of this is leading them to prison once they are adults, when students get in trouble and are arrested it is put on their record. In conclusion, this is way too harsh and needs to come to an end, how will a student have a good future if all this is