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Uploaded by on Sep 18, 2011

Bart Lubow: Zero tolerance policies and racial bias are pushing many kids out of school and in to jail

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  • Cut all funding for the War on Drugs.

  • No, locking children up, with at times more hardened children, only allows them to learn diffrent avenues they would have never even known of!

    I have known kids who went to juvy for accidents, others for family issues. Know 2 decades later, every one of them, that went for accidents, or even just mild rule breaking, has went back to serve longer actual jail and prison terms.

    When they take the easy route, and throw them in a cage, you cant be surprised when they come out even more troubled.

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  • Why Are Kids in Jail?

    One phrase - PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

    Have to get these kids into jail young, so they have a record, can't get employment, turn to crime to make ends meet, and end up right back in jail, so the owners of the private prisons can pocket even more taxpayer dollars.

    The owners of the private prisons and the bureacrats that support them are the REAL criminals, not these kids.

  • Hell nahhh

  • 2 idiots

  • children being in jail easy---unmarried parewnts parents who dont lay the law down parents letting others rasie there kids

  • More evidence of why education shouldn't be handled by governments.

  • @SandCmpbll I live in a Prison city i should know, but hey putting individuals into prison to work for less then a quarter an hour is good business for corporations too. I think we have a Moral Issue within us. End the War on the Drugs and would free up a lot more capital for others things like no income tax, and then you can donate that money to a non profit corporation that helps people.

  • @Budvb Your comment is really ridiculous. How is prison system big business for unions? Unions do NOT have the power corporations do. CORPORATIONS are driving the prison industry. They privately invest in prisons. Prison corporation stocks are openly TRADED on the stock market. Did you know that?

  • all you have to do is go to fucking school.. its not rocket science.. if you dont, youll probably end up in jail...

  • keep pressing 3:45 :DDD nice one Paul! Great reporting by the way, the other day I defended a 13 year old guy that was getting pushed by a tram agent cause his friend did'nt have a ticket and the boy asked for a kinder treatment (and getting the opposite). If kids are delinquent it is because the mistakes of our society, treat them right and they'll have no reason to offend whatsoever

  • This was a great program, I hope folks were able to understand the juvenile justice system in this country, and how unfair it is to our kids.

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