ACLU CT/May 13th ’11 School-To-Prison Pipeline Explored

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Home > Issues > Students’ Rights > School-to-Prison Pipeline Explored School-to-Prison Pipeline Explored Two ACLU leaders will play leading roles in a program examining “Graduation or Incarceration — the School to Prison Pipeline” on Friday May 13 at 5 p.m. at Capital Community Collegein Hartford.ACLU-CT Legal Director Sandra Staub will lead a Know your Rights Workshop for Youth at 5 pm. ACLU Northeast Region Director Benetta M. Standly will keynote a program at 6 p.m. titled Criminalizing Rather than Educating Youth. She will be joined by Marta Bentham, director of family services and ombudsman for the Hartford Public Schools. A student panel will follow. The program is sponsored by the TRYBE Force for Peace [Truth & Reconciliation for Youth and Adults in Brotherhood and Sisterhood for Empowerment of All] founded by Cedric Shaw of Bloomfield. Town Hall Flyer Please RSVP The national ACLU and the ACLU of Connecticut collaborated three years ago to produce a study of use of police in Connecticut schools which showed a growing tendency to arrest students for school infractions. Read the earlier story: ACLU Report Reveals Arrests At Hartford-Area Schools On Rise Download the report [823 kb] National Report:  A Disturbing New Trend: Jailing Poor Black Mothers for Trying to Educate Their Children About the Trybe Force More on the Trybe Force The college is in the former G. Fox & Co. building. If you haven’t been there since it was renovated for the college, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The program will be in the former Auerbach Hall on the top floor.