ZERO TOLERANCE DISCIPLINE, DISCRIMINATION, AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE The School to Prison Pipeline (STPP) is a nationwide system of local, state, and federal education and public safety policies that pushes students out of school and into the criminal justice system. The system disproportionately targets youth of color and youth with disabilities. Inequities in […]
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Texas D.A. Prosecutes Girl, 13, For Prostitution While Her Pimp, 32, Walks
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the king-sized failures of the justice system are no exception. A Harris County District had a major justice FAIL recently when he prosecuted a 13-year-old girl for prostitution, despite the fact that she's legally a human trafficking victim and not old enough to consent to sex. And […]
Guantánamo guard Facebooks former prisoner and they become friends
New to Facebook, Brandon Neely was searching the site for acquaintances in 2008 when he typed in the names of some of the detainees he had guarded during his tenure as a prison guard at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to […]
Surgeons in England awaiting their "pedophile background checks" delay kid operations.
Children's operations are being delayed and cancelled as surgeons face criminal records checks every time they work in a different part of the country, it has been warned. Specialist surgeons working with children face delays in being cleared to start work when covering for colleagues on sick leave at other hospitals. The repeated checks can […]
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