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Mississippi county jails children for dress code violation
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[quote:~JustMe~:MV8yMDY0MjA2XzM0NzM3NDA5XzI3QzE5NzVF] [b]Feds: Mississippi county runs 'school-to-prison pipeline'[/b] (CNN) -- Officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, have operated "a school-to-prison pipeline" that violates the constitutional rights of juveniles by incarcerating them for alleged school disciplinary infractions, some as minor as defiance, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. "Students most affected by this system are[b] African-American children[/b] and children with disabilities," the Justice Department said. http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/10/us/mississippi-juvenile-justice/index.html :csa: [/quote]
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In Meridian, Miss., it is school officials – not police – who determine who should be arrested. Schools seeking to discipline students call the police, and police policy is to arrest all children referred to the agency, according to a Department of Justice lawsuit. The result is a perverse system that funnels children as young as ten who merely misbehave in class into juvenile detention centers without basic constitutional procedures.
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