Mississippi Runs ‘School to Prison’ Pipeline for African-American and Disabled Students
The U.S. Department of Justice has found that officials in Mississippi operate a “school to prison” pipeline by jailing students for minor disciplinary infractions, thus violating the juvenile’s constitutional rights.
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According to the Justice Department, the students most impacted by this pipeline are African-American students and students with disabilities.
If the counties where this pipeline operates does not resolve to end it within 60 days, the Justice Department plans to file suit, according to a letter the Justice Department sent to officials in Meridian, Mississippi.
“The systematic disregard for children’s basic constitutional rights by agencies with a duty to protect and serve these children betrays the public trust,” Thomas E. Perez, assistant U.S. attorney general, said in a statement. “We hope to resolve the concerns outlined in our findings in a collaborative fashion, but we will not hesitate to take appropriate legal action if necessary.”
CNN reports:
In 2009, the Lauderdale County Juvenile Detention Facility in Meridian was the target of a federal class-action lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center that alleged children and teens were subjected to “shockingly inhumane” treatment, the center said.
The alleged mistreatment included youngsters being “crammed into small, filthy cells and tormented with the arbitrary use of Mace as a punishment for even the most minor infractions — such as ‘talking too much’ or failing to sit in the ‘back of their cells,’” the center said in a statement.
The U.S. Justice Department says Meridian police arrests all students referred by the city’s public schools and then sends them to the county juvenile justice system, “where existing due process protections are illusory and inadequate,” the federal letter says.
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This public racist school system is another plantation for our children, especially the Black male!
They (schools) put the male students on Ritalin, then expect them to perform in class! Once these students drop out of school the cycle of drugs and crime is an OPEN DOOR for them because they can’t get a job, so they turn to the streets.
Once they get a record; it’s all over! This is the plan to put ALL Black males in jail or kill them! Sounds like what happened to the Black Hebrew boys; the romans were told to KILL ALL THE BLACK HEBREW BABY BOYS!!!
PROOF:
Exocus 1:22 reads: “Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw into the Nile every [Hebrew] boy that was born, but to let every girl live.”
The same is happening to our young boys, today; they are being thrown into the PLANTATIONS/PRISONS and the girls are being brainwashed to look like whores because the MAN IS NOT THERE TO GUIDE THEM!!!
THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS HAPPENING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES…IT’S TIME TO SEPARATE FROM THESE demon/deveils…NOW!!!
Yep, I agree w. u! Ive heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright speak on a couple of occasions re the genocide of African American males where he drew parallels between what is happening presently to blk males & the slaughter of Hebrew males n the bk of Exodus n the bible. It seems not a day goes by w/o me reading about an African American male being offed by the cops while n their custody w. hands cuffed behind their back. Also, I have read about a similar system n Texas. This school to prison system probably exists throughout the country now, especially n the south.
Oh please. Women do not look like whores because a MAN isn’t there to guide them. Women do not need a man to guide them anywhere.
Also my brother was on ritalin and he actually did well in school. Don’t blame a medication.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE BOARDING CHARTER SCHOOLS RUN WITH CONCERNED EDUCATORS. THERE ARE SEVERAL IN THE WASHINGTON/MARYLAND AREAS WHCIH HAVE PROVEN SUCCESSFUL. AS AN EDUCATOR, I AWAYS WANTED TO HAVE A HOME FOR A FEW CHILDREN WHOM I FEEL NEEDED EXTRA CARE AROUND THE CLOCK. THEY NEEDED SERIOUS LIFESKILLS AND A WARM ENVIRONMENT ONCE LEAVING THE CLASSROOM. ACTUALLY, I FELT SO BAD FOR MANY OF THESE CHILDREN; SOME DID NOT WANT TO GO HOME.
once these kids get documented as being antisocial they become stigmatized. I hope that no permanent record of these juviniles is kept. Lord knows future employers will be looking for any excuse to deny a job to young Black applicants.
This is the “PLAN”…iT IS UP TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO “SAVE YOURSELVES”!!
These same schools that mistreat our kids are the same schools that receive federal dollars, per child, for our kids. What would happen to these schools if none of us enrolled our kids in these schools that mistreated our kids, and created our own learning communities.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. There are many black churches that could be used as learning communities. In my city, there is a church on every corner. Each church could be a learning community for a different grade, with online learning environments.
If our kids aren’t at these schools that mistreat our kids, the schools don’t get the funding for our kids. And then these schools are forced to close. Money talks. And some of these schools only care about the money our kids bring to the school, not about educating our kid or treating our kids with decency and respect.
Parent protect your children. These nogood slave holders dont care about your children trust me I know, JUmp on it and dont let them spoil your child for life. Go to the scholls send the grandparent,uncle, aunt cousin,etc to the school. Dont let them use your child and continue enslavement. Pray and Vote.
It seems that once they get your child into their “system” your parental rights are deemed null and void as they use any infraction (such as walking out of class at school) to give your son more time in their “care”. According to their own documented reports I can show that my son was diagnosed with ADHD, given the wrong medications for it, taken away from the only place he’s known as home, punished anytime he demonstrated typical ADHD behaviors, and developed a “big weed habit” all while under the supervision of The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) here in Washington, DC. He recieved very little rehabilitation. Three years he was in the care of DYRS, yet he only spent the last eight months in a treatment facility. They gave him little to no behavior modification counceling (none to me) and suspended his individual counceling because “he failed to set any goals for himself”
Two months after his release his impulsive behavior caused him to get involved in an armed robbery (left his key at home, couldn’t get in and went for a subway ride with a “friend”) for which he has now been charged (at 16 years of age), awaiting sentencing, as an adult. I am the single mother of four. He is the baby of my bunch and I have never had to go through any of this before. They eat you alive if you have no knowledge of rights, proceedings, etc…..What can we do?
@ Derrick. You are absolutely correct! Here in GA, this same practice is taking place. M
That’s why so many are homeschooling right now. The charters are going out of business, the public schools are inadequate so what other option?
If a Black child cannot read and write well by 3rd grade, he or she is being groomed for prison, poverty, and political disenfranchisement.
Black teens are being charged with felonies for minor issues, which prevents them from voting. Black teens are being suspended from school for practically nothing, which results in useless educations that foster inactive potential voters.
The plantation is now! Just ask Romney/Ryan!
@Jide252, your statement is too true, my son was reading at fourth grade level in the eighth grade. when i went to the board of education they told me he was a troubled child and kicked him out of the city school. i put him in private school, they didn’t have special ed teachers. I than put him in Sylvan learning Center and he improved greatly. Finally i put him in county school at which time his school records from the city had tarnished him. i tried everything to get help, but received it one week too late. he was hanging around a much older man who committed robbery and my son was caught up in the system. now they don’t want to let him go. once the system get hands on them you lose all of your parental rights. You will end up losing every possession you own fighting for your child life. i am a living witness.
I as a disabled adult who was diganosed as being Hyperactive with Behavioral Disorders as a child going thru school. I was put into “Special Education” which ultimately put me into classes with other children with very serious disablities, thus leaving a stigma that I too had something seriously wrong with me. I was tormented as a child in school, because I was in the “r****d” class. I grew up in the South, though not in Mississippi, but in deep South Texas.. I was involved in many fights, sometimes defending myself or defending others in my class who were getting bullied. I was kicked out of school a few times because of this, then I was sent to an Alternitive School, because I was considered a trouble maker. Teachers back in the 70′s-90′s really didn’t care if kids were being bullied, and if they did they did little of nothing to stop or prevent it, so what is a kid supposed to do. It was either fight or flight, I eventually dropped out of public school and got my GED and went on to college and got my degree without issue. Fortuniately when I dropped out of School, I was smart about things, I did my best not to get in trouble with the law, though I did have some minor skirmishes with the law in my youth and early adulthood. I refused to be a statistic..When I left public school I left home and went as far away as I possibly could from my family and from the memories of being bullied. Today I have built my own business, have a comfortable but modest home, and a wonderful wife who I adore and love more than words could ever express. Our education system is in serious need of overhaulling… when I have a child I have absolutely no intention of allowing my child to go to public schools, I may home school, or send my child to a private school of which I have researched and studied before allowing my child to be under the guidence of some a$$ backwards educational institution.