Youth Voices
The so-called “school-to-prison pipeline” is a trend in which children, particularly of certain racial and ethnic backgrounds and with learning disabilities or histories of poverty or neglect, are pushed out of schools into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Zero-tolerance policies that treat infractions of school rules as crimes are believed to be a big factor contributing to the problem.
These are essays from incarcerated youth that share perspectives on identity, prison and the criminal justice system.
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