From SPLC: A mother whose daughters were hit with pepper spray by a police officer at their school in Birmingham, Ala., joined the SPLC and a coalition of advocacy groups today to present the city council and Mayor William Bell with a petition signed by more than 25,000 people urging…
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From NPR: In the confines of jail cells, photographer Richard Ross documents children’s experiences. He snaps pictures without revealing his subjects’ faces, aiming to “give them a voice.” The Juvenile-In-Justice project includes photographs of more than 100 facilities in 30 states. The project’s website has numerous images and quotes from…
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From the Huffington Post: A 7-cent robbery might sound like a petty crime, but, combined with the assault of a 73-year-old man, it’s landed 15-year-old Anthony Stewart some serious time in juvenile detention. Onondaga County Judge William Walsh decided that Stewart deserved to have the incident on his permanent record.…
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Texas schools continue to push the school-to-prison pipeline as students as young as five years old end up in courtrooms pleading guilty to school bus skirmishes, spilling milk, spraying perfume in class, running in the hall, and violating dress codes. The Washington Post reports that 6 in 10 students were…
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