#prison pipelines

[s3znl-gr3znl]

Leftist #1: So yeah its cool that we agree on this thing. Lets work together

Leftist #2: Agree? Nonono, your theory on Dialectical Materialism may be sound, but your views on kittens with bowties make cooperation with you utterly impossible.

Rightwinger: what if we use fentynal instead of gunpowder in bullets so that everyone who dies in a school shooting can be labeled a drug addict, thus justifying their death

[reasonsforhope]

"Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, K–12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that began in 2017. These referrals and the 54,321 reported school-based arrests that same year were mostly for minor misbehavior like marijuana possession, as opposed to more serious offenses like bringing a gun to school.

School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students—especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities—are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system.

Getting caught up in the legal system has been linked to negative health, social, and academic outcomes, as well as increased risk for future arrest.

Given these negative consequences, public agencies in states like Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania have looked for ways to arrest fewer young people in schools. Philadelphia, in particular, has pioneered a successful effort to divert youth from the legal system.

Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program

In Philadelphia, police department leaders recognized that the city’s school district was its largest source of referrals for youth arrests. To address this issue, then–Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel developed and implemented a school-based, pre-arrest diversion initiative in partnership with the school district and the city’s department of human services. The program is called the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, and it officially launched in May 2014.

Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker named Bethel as her new police commissioner on Nov. 22, 2023.

Since the diversion program began, when police are called to schools in the city for offenses like marijuana possession or disorderly conduct, they cannot arrest the student involved if that student has no pending court case or history of adjudication. In juvenile court, an adjudication is similar to a conviction in criminal court.

Instead of being arrested, the diverted student remains in school, and school personnel decide how to respond to their behavior. For example, they might speak with the student, schedule a meeting with a parent, or suspend the student.

A social worker from the city also contacts the student’s family to arrange a home visit, where they assess youth and family needs. Then, the social worker makes referrals to no-cost community-based services. The student and their family choose whether to attend.

Our team—the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University—evaluated the effectiveness of the diversion program as independent researchers not affiliated with the police department or school district. We published four research articles describing various ways the diversion program affected students, schools, and costs to the city.

Arrests Dropped

In our evaluation of the diversion program’s first five years, we reported that the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia decreased by 84%: from nearly 1,600 in the school year beginning in 2013 to just 251 arrests in the school year beginning in 2018.

Since then, school district data indicates the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia has continued to decline—dropping to just 147 arrests in the school year that began in 2022. That’s a 91% reduction from the year before the program started.

We also investigated the number of serious behavioral incidents recorded in the school district in the program’s first five years. Those fell as well, suggesting that the diversion program effectively reduced school-based arrests without compromising school safety.

Additionally, data showed that city social workers successfully contacted the families of 74% of students diverted through the program during its first five years. Nearly 90% of these families accepted at least one referral to community-based programming, which includes services like academic support, job skill development, and behavioral health counseling...

Long-Term Outcomes

To evaluate a longer follow-up period, we compared the 427 students diverted in the program’s first year to the group of 531 students arrested before the program began. Results showed arrested students were significantly more likely to be arrested again in the following five years...

Finally, a cost-benefit analysis revealed that the program saves taxpayers millions of dollars.

Based on its success in Philadelphia, several other cities and counties across Pennsylvania have begun replicating the Police School Diversion Program. These efforts could further contribute to a nationwide movement to safely keep kids in their communities and out of the legal system."

-via Yes! Magazine, December 5, 2023

[nighthaunting]

This deserves a more in-depth post but I’ve been thinking about Morgott again and just off the cuff it IS very funny in terms of symmetry that Marika imprisoned Morgott in the Shunning Grounds to the point that he was shackled to keep him there and now Morgott is doing such a good job defending the Erdtree to keep the Tarnished from burning his city down that he’s incidentally keeping Marika imprisoned in her Elden Ring Breaker’s Time Out Crucifixion Evergaol

How the turn tables type situation honestly

Morgott’s devotion to the Erdtree is continually framed as him being overly invested in the Golden Order’s dogma by fandom which is I think a misread of his situation, as I’ve said before, but Morgott’s devotion to defending the Erdtree has also kept Marika imprisoned for ???? years so he’s also honestly doing more than any other demigod to directly pay her back for his terrible childhood, and its entirely unwitting which is the funniest part

I have seen a lot of fanworks belaboring Morgott’s imagined mommy issues and religious issues but I think we need to lean in more on the fact that Morgott was also directly keeping anyone from breaking the Erdtree open like a piñata to find out what happened to Marika for the length of An Age

The Veiled Monarch running Leyndell like its the fucking Navy and whenever anyone asks him what happened to the God Queen he’s like ‘its fine don’t worry about it also under no circumstances should anyone approach the Erdtree Sanctuary no reason she just needs her privacy’

Did he occasionally hear muffled clanging coming from inside as Radagon tried to fix the Elden Ring and ignore it because it’s none of his business?

IDK I just think this is very funny Morgott successfully jailed his Godly parent for like a thousand years by accident by being extremely good at siege defense strategy and also hunting Tarnished for sport

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

See I already knew this, but when you look at pics it’s a whole different story

THE PIPELINE CELLS ARE FUCKING S M A L L

[schrodingerseurydice]

odysseus the moment when, for the first time in 20 years, nobody is trying to kill him: whelp, guess it's time to kms

[asaconservative]

As a conservative, I demand an end to schools indoctrinating children. And by that I mean:

I demand an end to corporal punishment in schools.

I demand an end to forcing children to stand for or recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

I demand an end to teaching children to respect authority.

I demand an end to the School To Prison Pipeline.

[slacktivist]

There are only a handful of people who really "benefit" from exploiting labour and non-renewable resources. The global economic system reinforces the power that this handful of people have, even if they were a group that never crossed paths.

Your salary is negotiated in a vaccum, while the cost of living is relative. The price of all goods are determined to maximize company profit, but the return on those profits are decided by those with the most power and therefore incentive to benefit the most. The return is completely subjective to the person who has that power, and those who are close to that power are incentivised through financial and survivor bias, to reinforce the person who holds the power.

Complacency is greedy. There are people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, sometimes millions. For doing absolutely nothing. Have you ever thought that being a manager isn't a 'real job'? That's because in most cases, it isn't a job. It's a formal stepping stone to reinforce hierarchies where people are incentivised to reach a higher salary. It literally exists to justify your inadequacy to change your social caste.

Europe, the new western world, the new global north has been built upon these structures for centuries, and it has been "science" and western philosophy that has justified the pervasiveness of "global economics" . Competition is not exploitation. Competition is incentive. Greedy individuals have successfully stunted technological growth by outsourcing exploitation at a global scale and forceably shaping the world using their power, influence, and propaganda. If you think your favorite tourist destination is innocent in this, you are hopelessly wrong .

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/what-it-means-to-go-back-to-school-in-the-american-police-state

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Oh my freaking God, it was the day from hell.

We got to school to find out that the ongoing construction had turned off our water.

Now any sensible school would think : there is no water, the kids cannot flush the toilets, the kids cannot wash their hands, the adults cannot flush the toilets, adults cannot wash their hands,...

. No water fountain is in operation.... therefore we should close the school and send everyone home.

NOT OUR SCHOOL!!!!

The school had the kids going to the construction workers porta potties if you no way to wash their hands. I went home to use the bathroom and retrieve hand sanitizer which no kid actually used Upon returning her in the bathroom. They had to have one of the aides man the door to make sure the kids were not leaving the campus entirely when they went to the porta potties and kept the doors to school wide open. This caused bees to come into our room and reek havoc!!

Are Paras have been elsewhere because of teachers that have been absent so I have not had Paris in my room for 2 days. And I need that extra help. Especially night. Where the entire class is on kindergarten level even though it's fourth grade. It's like herding cats. No one can read. No one can arrive. No one understands a single thing that we are doing and yet they are in general education. So today they kept one para just to hold open the door and watch to make sure the kids were not leaving campus...

Today was a review for the upcoming test which no one took seriously. But it really doesn't matter because if they fail we're not allowed to give them the failing grade anyway. I really and truly think someone on our school board own sstock in some private prison and is just ensuring future bunks are taken by refusing to actually educate the kids, holding accountable, or discipline them in any way, shape, or fashion. But that's just my opinion.

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

so iirc this is hartley (I told you I was gonna spend too long on this lol)

andy mientus is 5'8" if the internet is to be believed and it looks to me that he could probably fit all but his shins and feet if he were to try to lay completely flat

legs are generally around 60% of a person's height on average and then we cut that number in halfish again, subtract that from his height and

the pipeline cells are probably around 48 inches or 4 feet exactly, real freaking small lol

Dude wtf

Just looked it up and apparently that’s smaller than 3 average prison cells combined (according to wikipedia at least)

Yeah that was really bad on the team’s part. That’s the kind of stuff you’d find in a villains lair— not your main characters homebase.

Not 100% sure who said it but there was a post on here about the Rogues suing for Barry (well, The Flash) for unlawful imprisonment. Definitely onto something there

[fatehbaz]

Vidal [...] emphasizes the close relationship that existed between the Louisiana settlement [at New Orleans] and the Caribbean island [Haiti, the colony of Saint-Domingue] during the former’s French colonial period (1718-69). It has become a bit of a popular adage to describe New Orleans as the northernmost port of the Caribbean, but Vidal’s Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society demonstrates the substance behind these claims. [...] New Orleans is the missing link, a late-forming city that largely inherited its founding ideas, practices, peoples, plants, and laws from its longer-established imperial neighbors [France, Spain, Britain, and what would become the United States]. It thus offers the ideal case study in which to consider how colonies around the Americas developed in conversation with one another [...].

Vidal convincingly argues that New Orleans was a “slave society,” or a settlement in which racialized slavery informed every part of everyday life from its inception, whose physical construction was done alongside the “construction of racial categories” (p. 1).

This is an important shift within Louisiana historiography, which has long stood by [...] [the] argument that early New Orleans offered the semi-unique example of a “slave society” devolving into a “society with slaves.” Abandoned by the French following the spectacular failure of the Compagnie des Indes, the standard story goes, New Orleans became an isolated backwater until the 1770s, struggling to survive and permitting, out of sheer need, less disciplined contact between residents of European, Indigenous, and African birth and descent. [But] Vidal, in contrast, shows that, while Louisiana struggled to create a full-fledged plantation economy during the French era, this did not prevent its capital from organizing itself along the highly stratified lines of the Caribbean islands.

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Furthermore, she argues, because New Orleans did not see many new residents after 1731, free or enslaved, and because it was a smaller settlement, white inhabitants were able to build upon these ideas in a relatively stable environment - focusing much of their energies on surveilling, containing, and disciplining the enslaved and free persons of color (p. 26). [...]

Vidal especially points to the 1729 Natchez attack and ensuing Natchez Wars [against Indigenous peoples] as pivotal moments in the militarization of white New Orleanians [...].

Subsequently, a scrupulous supervision of racial boundaries became the norm for the rest of the French era and fostered “a sense of community among white urbanites” (p. 141). Chapter 3 takes readers to the streets, levees, and other public spaces of New Orleans, where whites sought to sculpt the privileges of “whiteness” against both residents of African birth and descent as well as one another. Elite men and their wives scuffled over the best seating at church in an effort to recreate France’s ancien régime culture; socially lower [...] nonslaveholders, meanwhile, carefully guarded their weaker claims at mastery through street violence [...]. Beginning with a careful reading of census categories, Vidal traces how distinctions between European settlers [...] were increasingly replaced with those centered exclusively on race by 1763. [...] [Vidal then] follows the ways in which the demographically diverse workforce of the early colony made up of white indentured servants, convicts, and soldiers in addition to enslaved Africans - gave way to associations of difficult and degrading labor limitedly with the enslaved. [...]

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French Louisiana inherited racial categories from the Caribbean but adjusted them to fit local needs, experiencing “not so much a loosening, but a more complex transformation” of its racial regime, largely through violence (p. 371).

Vidal documents how the Superior Council utilized targeted prosecutions and punishments to increasingly “imprint terror and instill obedience” on the enslaved (p. 390). [...] [The book] thus details a society in which racial hierarchies were asserted and supported through both top-down and bottom-up policies and practices, as “no social institution or relationship was left untouched by race” (p. 504).

To this end, Vidal speaks to important conversations by historians of enslaved women in the British Caribbean, including Jennifer Morgan and Marissa Fuentes. These authors have used a similarly wide range of sources [...] [and] archives to underscore the invasive nature of colonial racism. [...] [I]n part [...] Vidal’s [chapters work] to decouple lower Louisiana history from the fur traders of New France [Ontario, Quebec, and the watershed of the Mississippi River] and to reattach it to the planters of Saint-Domingue [in Haiti and the Caribbean]. [...] Combing through administrative papers, censuses, laws, parish registers, correspondence, and judicial records from both sides of the Atlantic, readers will get a sense that there is little Cécile Vidal has not seen or considered. [...] Her book [...] hopefully will convince an even wider audience [...] [to engage with] comparative, cis-Atlantic, and transatlantic studies of imperialism, race, and slavery.

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All text above by: Kristin C. Lee. "Review of Vidal, Cécile, Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society". H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews. January 2022. URL at: h-net dot org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56913 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[forensicfield]

the School-To-Prison Pipeline

This phenomenon is characterised by a series of interconnected mechanisms that disproportionately impact specific demographics, perpetuating cycles of inequality & deprivation. #forensicscience #crimescene #forensicpsychology #psychology #schooltoprison

Continue reading the School-To-Prison Pipeline

[ausetkmt]

Black Toddler 'Arrested' By White Child In Rosa Parks Role-Play At Daycare

I would never allow my child to attend any academy that would engage in this type of direct manipulation of history and children's impressions.

How would they feel if it were reversed?

Parents, you need to pay attention to these types of actions at schools because they directly impact your child's future. Whether you wanna believe it or not, it does.

This is training for the public school to prison pipeline. Starting in preschool.

this school should be sued to filth for this

[anendoandfriendo]

Okay, ya fucking shill.

For anyone wondering what our problem is, it's not this person being neurodivergent, it's that, yeah, we see it will be needed while shitty consists exist and are being taken down, but the DSM and ICD are the biggest perpetrators of ableism and saneism in the first place. Anyone defining themselves with DSM codes of all things in this way is/should be a red flag ioo.