BOB HERBERT: School to Prison Pipeline

[kevinmc]

The latest news-as-entertainment spectacular is the Paris Hilton criminal justice fiasco. She’s in! She’s out! She’s — whatever.

Far more disturbing (and much less entertaining) is the way school officials and the criminal justice system are criminalizing children and teenagers all over the country, arresting them and throwing them in jail for behavior that in years past would never have led to the intervention of law enforcement.

This is an aspect of the justice system that is seldom seen. But the consequences of ushering young people into the bowels of police precincts and jail cells without a good reason for doing so are profound.

Two months ago I wrote about a 6-year-old girl in Florida who was handcuffed by the police and taken off to the county jail after she threw a tantrum in her kindergarten class.......

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/06/bob-herbert-school-to-prison-pipeline.html

[KellyW]

1. Yes the case of Shaquanda Cotton is very wrong

I am glad you posted this. Notice what happened to Shaquanda Cotton. Also on DU right now,, is Alabama Senator Charles Bishop Punching out Senator Lowell Barron. Bishop won't even be charged. The chasm of justice is overwhelming.

[JTFrog]

2. And that was Bishop's

second punch on the floor. Yes, Justice is Served at the Pleasure of the President.