Phase One: Describe a Practice Problem A Description of the Practice Need Schools and Prisons in America are two of the highest populated institutions in America‚ those two facets originated the School to Prison pipeline. The School to Prison pipeline mainly impacts marginalized youth in oppressed neighborhoods. With the development of new policies and practices it is constantly shifting children out of the public-school system and into the criminal justice system. Children in poverty-stricken communities
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The school-to-prison pipeline targets inner city kids and makes it nearly impossible for them to finish school and have success. Overbearing police presence and zero-tolerance policies give the affected children a disadvantage and forces them to work twice as hard to get half as far. Through less criminalization of children of color and less use of the police force the school-to-prison pipeline can be decreased and ultimately stopped. A zero-tolerance policy was vastly adopted following the 1999
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look at school systems disciplinary policies and the effect they have on students. While most school systems in the nation have adapted the zero tolerance policies‚ there is major concerns that specific students could be targeted‚ and introduced in the criminal justice system based on these disciplinary policies. This research paper is intended to focus on the reform of zero tolerance policies‚ and minimizing the school to prison pipeline. School to Prison Pipeline The school to prison pipeline
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It is obvious that being expelled or suspended from school in early age will effect the students negatively later in life‚ but what is it the reasons behind the students getting expelled? In Christopher Mallet’s essay; “The school to prison pipeline”‚ he states “Many students have been increasingly suspended and expelled due to criminalizing both typical adolescent developmental behaviors as well as low-level type misdemeanors: acting out in class‚ truancy‚ fighting‚ and other similar offenses” (15)
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School-to-Prison Pipeline The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country‚ specifically targeting minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in schools across the United States‚ students are channeled directly from the school system into the criminal justice system. Many of these schools have metal detectors‚ law enforcement officers in the buildings and intense zero-tolerance policies that treat minor and major infractions with extreme severity
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The school-to-prison pipeline theory “suggests that early involvement in school discipline is a clear predictor of future problems” (p. 7) with the justice system (Office of the State Superintendent of Education‚ 2013). The most common practice associated with this theory is zero-tolerance policies that are implemented nationwide in schools. A zero-tolerance policy in a school is the rigorous enforcement of rules and bans against unwanted behaviors and possession of items (Office of the State Superintendent
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With the most read news story this week being the video of a white sheriff deputy throwing a black high school girl to the floor earlier this week it is not wonder that the latest national discussion about race has to do with discipline and punishment. Several videos of the occurrence have spread like wildfire‚ a video that supposedly shows Deputy Ben Fields forcibly dragging a female African American student from her desk and slamming her into the floor after she supposedly ignored the teacher
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American School Lunches Compared To Lunches Around The World Are other countries school lunches better than America’s? Cheeseburgers‚ broccoli‚ apple slices‚ and milk‚ just a couple of things on a typical American school lunch tray. Portrayed to be one of the most healthiest and delicious meal. However when you compare an American school lunch to any other countries school lunch‚ the results can be very eye-opening. According to the School of Thought editors(2012) American school lunches have
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Beasley Jail’s and Prison’s Response Prisons range from minimum to maximum security. They are designed to house criminals who have committed similar types of offenses. The penal institutions of developed countries usually offer better living conditions and greater inmate safety than those found in undeveloped or authoritarian nations. Although most correctional facilities are intended to incarcerate adult‚ civilian criminals‚ prison types‚ exist for military personnel‚ juveniles‚ violent
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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