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Old 08-11-2012, 02:48 PM   #2
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The article referenced barely scratches the surface on the issue of the school to prison pipeline. I cite it as a blatant example of the racism and how simple it is to construct so seamlessly a system that feeds children to prisons.

I'm not an expert on this topic. Nor of topics related to racism, class struggles or institutional bias. I just simple notice how the institutions of education and prisons have both experienced (nearly simultaneously it seems to me) shifts that make them money makers for corporations. Prisons maintained, run by companies. Public service dollars funneled into corporate companies. Schools/testing providers run by companies. Again, more profiting from public dollars.

As "institutions" created for the safety and advancement of our country's youngest and legally most vulnerable citizens (education/corrections) I am struck how policies that intertwine feed these systems and create continuous profits. At the expense of us all. And we pay for this.

It shocks me that we would pay to treat our citizens this way. As pawns to be demonized and profited from. And it is so blatant.
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