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Former Incarcerated Youth: The Unknown Collaterals of The School to Prison Pipeline

Former Incarcerated Youth: The Unknown Collaterals of The School to Prison Pipeline

You are on your computer and you decide to click on a video that it seems all your social media friends have continuously shared. You press play and on your screen you see a little girl sitting in her chair with a police officer standing nearby. Suddenly, the police officer yanks the girl’s arm and in a struggle flips her and the chair over. The girl is subsequently dragged by her hair and arrested. The little girl is African-American. This happens during class, in front of all the other students and the teacher.

Videos like the one described above have bought great attention to the phenomenon labeled as the “school-to-prison pipeline”.