School to Prison Pipeline

"School-to-prison-pipeline" a phenomenon in which students are funneled into the criminal justice system for mere disciplinary violations 
Across the country, during the 2009-2010 academic year, upwards of three million students were suspended, nearly 110,000 were expelled, and more than 240,000 were referred to law enforcement. 
http://www.ed.gov/blog/tag/school-to-prison-pipeline/
Last year, 75 percent of the students arrested in Chicago's public schools were black. The study provides a total racial breakdown on arrests in 2012: That year, 3,240 black students were arrested, along with 889 Latinos, and 136 White students. 
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/04/2096701/three-out-of-four-kids-in-chicagos-school-to-prison-pipeline-are-black/

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