School to Prison Pipeline
What is the problem?
- Targets specific populations.
- Factors correlated with school to prison pipeline.
- Criminalizes minor offenses in school.
- Schools adopt "zero tolerance" like policies.
- Gun free schools Act of 1994.
- 1994 G.F.S.A Federal regulations.
Possible Solutions
- Creation of new policies.
- Limit district involvement
- Mandatory reporting for each school.
- Ban federal government involvement.
Why does it exist?
- The prison industrial complex system.
- Every company needs raw material.
Conclusion
Continuation of salvery
Escondido Police at Rincon Middle School
History of the school to prison pipeline
6 year old arrested !!
- What is the school to prison pipeline?
- Media influences perception.
- Late 1980's marks the beginning.
- 1990's "Super Predator" theory.
Reagan's "war on drugs" campaign.
References